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Carleton Handley @carletonhandley.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

One of my favourites. Worth it for the Coat Hanger joke.

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Carleton Handley @carletonhandley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They definitely missed an opportunity. I remember the form factor being pretty good.

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Carleton Handley @carletonhandley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yeah, that doesn’t look totally official! This was to be a proper licenced version. I even made a new version for a fancy Pocket PC with ATI graphics acceleration and a two player Bluetooth mode.

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Carleton Handley @carletonhandley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In 2002/3, while at Zed Two, I coded two complete Pocket PC games that were never released. One of these was and official conversion of Tetris. Here's @stepickford.bsky.social's hand-drawn design for the layout and how it looked in the game.

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Carleton Handley @carletonhandley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Not heard of Andy, I know John but I don’t think it was him. Perhaps it was just a company thing.

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Carleton Handley @carletonhandley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I would have sworn it was you. I'd lay money on us taking an external producer, and we didn't have many. Certainly early 1990, Skull & Crossbones time. Perhaps it was your predecessor, but if so their name is lost to me. Paul Holmes was with us for Spitting Image but I thought you replaced him.

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Carleton Handley @carletonhandley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ha! It was a good small studio. Far from the best but we got stuff done. And we got to see Prisoner Cell Block H the stage play (I’m sure you came). What’s not to like?

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Carleton Handley @carletonhandley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The desk Richard is looking at in the second picture was mine, you can see the back of my 1541 disk drive. The other guy in the pics is David Fish, Walking Circles’ excellent artist. Adrian Page’s back is shown, he tended to do the gfx for my #C64 games. The whole office was really a storage unit.

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Carleton Handley @carletonhandley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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Carleton Handley @carletonhandley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Very sad to hear of the passing of my friend @bone6502.bsky.social. He was in QA when I first met him at Creations, and by the time we were at Zed Two, he was one of the finest coders I'd worked with. I know we're all getting older, but we're losing too many of the old UK games crowd far too soon.

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Carleton Handley @carletonhandley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

In my first job in a dev studio we used in house tools for 8-bit. Moved to Degas Elite as 16-bit became a thing, and eventually DPaint Anim.

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Carleton Handley @carletonhandley.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Action Biker on the C64. Never did understand how the isometric masking worked.

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Carleton Handley @carletonhandley.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

If I could turn bosses off in games I would. So much development goes in to them that it’s never going to happen.

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Carleton Handley @carletonhandley.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Yeah, I turned all the levels down to their easiest setting. Made it a much better game for me, but I still got stuck. The old school manual aesthetic with handwritten notes is a lovely touch.

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Carleton Handley @carletonhandley.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Nice. I’m ashamed to say I didn’t know this exhibition was a thing.

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Carleton Handley @carletonhandley.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

You’d probably get it for that. Accepted evidence is spelling my name correctly.

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Carleton Handley @carletonhandley.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

No sorry. I’ve never even heard of Asylum Entertainment.

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Carleton Handley @carletonhandley.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Ha! It’s not like anybody is going to claim my CV for the glory.

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Carleton Handley @carletonhandley.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

It is, thanks for posting it. I'm not so sure I've seen anything like that before. It also goes to show how complex something that looks so simple is.

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Carleton Handley @carletonhandley.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Moby Games has a few errors and omissions in my profile, so I'm claiming it. To do so, I have to post the following message here. I'm claiming my @mobygames.com profile: www.mobygames.com/person/11734...

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Carleton Handley - MobyGames

Game credits, biography, portraits and other game industry information for Carleton Handley - MobyGames

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Carleton Handley @carletonhandley.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

What a wonderful video. I did a tiny bit of #C64 demo coding back in the 80s but preferred to make games. Mainly because it's easier than some of the trickery described here!

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Carleton Handley @carletonhandley.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Today I learnt that my #C64 game APB appeared on not one, but two compilations in the 90s. I was aware of the TNT bundle, but there was also something named Winning Team. I don't have either in my personal collection, so I may try to pick them up someday. www.bigboxcollection.com/WinningTeam....

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3D box view of Winning Team (1991, C64, UK, Compilation)

BigBoxCollection: high-res 3D boxes of over 900 games from 1982 to today

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Carleton Handley @carletonhandley.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

This is such a great site. Not sure physical is the answer in the digital age but it definitely was when I was growing up in the 80s. Sitting on the bus home reading the manual to a game I’d spent weeks saving up was a great time.

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Carleton Handley @carletonhandley.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Lovely. Anyways thought the first boxer was promoting a rival: “Gabby Jay. E.A”

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Carleton Handley @carletonhandley.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Always a good read. That game on the back looks good too.

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Carleton Handley @carletonhandley.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I really liked Matt Furniss’ tunes and nobody could accuse it of being a brown game. Had all the levels. I think the gameplay can fairly be described as moribund though.

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Carleton Handley @carletonhandley.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Can’t think of one sorry. There must be more than me on here though.

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Carleton Handley @carletonhandley.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Wasn’t expecting to get a burn off @retrogamermag.bsky.social on my Sunday morning read! 😉 I thought our home conversions of a mediocre arcade game were OK.

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Carleton Handley @carletonhandley.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I closed my Facebook account around 2 years ago. Felt like a big deal at the time. Turns out it was nothing of the sort. I did download my history for photos etc. but not sure I’ve even looked at those.

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Carleton Handley @carletonhandley.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Well this is a forgotten memory. Was it used on Spy Hunter or Raid Over Moscow? I got both free for subscribing to Zzap.

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Carleton Handley @carletonhandley.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I used to play this loads. I think the limited dictionary makes it a more realistic opponent for a fool like me.

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Carleton Handley @carletonhandley.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

At the #britfest in Altrincham. Came mainly for Sleeper who didn’t disappoint. May as well continue drinking in the sun and watch the Happy Mondays later.

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Carleton Handley @carletonhandley.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I’ve played many video games. Hardly any have made me cry laughing, but this did back in the day. Brilliant fun.

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Carleton Handley @carletonhandley.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I think it was probably Rad Mobile. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rad_Mob...

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Rad Mobile - Wikipedia

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Carleton Handley @carletonhandley.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Master System. Have I got the right game? I thought it was a Sega game. My memory is poor though.

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Carleton Handley @carletonhandley.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Rad Racer, I worked on a (Real?) Ghostbusters prototype. Cant remember others but I was only there 2 years.

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Carleton Handley @carletonhandley.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I had plenty of games cancelled during development. It was even worse when something was complete and still didn’t get published. Chun’s memories here are all too familiar.

development.it

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Carleton Handley @carletonhandley.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I only knew it wasn’t the ball because an England player made good contact with it

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Carleton Handley @carletonhandley.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Yeah, we called them sheets. “I’m stuck on the fourth sheet of Chiller.” Think it went out of fashion with single screen games.

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Carleton Handley @carletonhandley.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

No, in the resource directory in the codebase. That screenshot is bigger than 64kb alone!

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Carleton Handley @carletonhandley.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I've been revisiting the #C64 source code for Millie & Molly for reasons. In there I found some old prototype screens from when I was using Rainbow Island sprites and Rick Dangerous backgrounds. And the even older 8x8 char version with my very own programmer art.

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Carleton Handley @carletonhandley.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Monte’s stuff just gets better and better. This looks like a belter.

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Carleton Handley @carletonhandley.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

There was a surfeit of brilliant #C64 conversions around this time, before arcade machines got more powerful. Mr Do, Up ‘n’ Down, Spy Hunter and this all jump to mind.

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Carleton Handley @carletonhandley.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Amazing. I can picture it now. I’m guessing those 2p roulette and horse racing games as well.

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Carleton Handley @carletonhandley.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

So what was on the pier back then? It’s a big space for a few arcade cabs.

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Carleton Handley @carletonhandley.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

I’ve been reading @jazrignall.bsky.social’s excellent book Games of a Lifetime. The early chapters are evocative of the OG arcade years. I’m now in Aberystwyth where most of Julian’s memories are from. I’m hoping some kind of portal to the past opens so I can see Asteroids arrive for the first time.

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Carleton Handley @carletonhandley.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

£24k plus royalties! Gutted I failed that interview now.

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