The billion dollar video games industry had to start somewhere, and this is the hilarious, heartbreaking, inside story of how it all began and where it's all headed. And in the middle of it all there was a game hailed as the best ever written. It was called Deus Ex Machina. It was a creative triumph and it was a commercial disaster. Meet the pirates, the nerds, the innovators, the charlatans, the superstars, the winners, the sinners, the good, the bad and the downright ugly. A remarkable s...

This is a hands-on guide to discover how long you will live, what you’re worth and who gets what when you die. It takes you step by step through everything you need for a personal action plan, including your digital legacy, your will, your final years, your death, funeral, and all your last orders for after you’ve gone. Relax. Stop worrying. Here are the answers to sort out your online and real world affairs and solve all those life and death problems. LAST ORDERS covers everything clearly...

The world's largest building collapses as terrorists launch weapons of mass destruction against the civilian population. Except this time the target is His Majesty's Royal Dockyard. The superpower is England. The terrorists are American. And it’s 1776. Shock and awe, as a media war sows the seeds of fear, and panic sweeps the nation. The conspirators behind the atrocities are revealed to include a transvestite aristocrat, a crippled media baron and an alcoholic child, all holed up in the n...

The unexpurgated, hilarious and unflinching history of computers, of the lunatics who create them, and of the idiots who use them, retold in cartoon strips by Mel Croucher and Robin Evans. Great Moments In Computing is the longest-running, most widely read and best loved computer cartoon strip in the world, and this unique collection contains every single episode ... along with unpublished and previously censored versions, and the behind-the-scenes secrets of how it all really happened.

This is the complete collection of all the artwork dreamed up by Mel Croucher and Robin Evans for the legendary games company Automata and their cult cartoon mascot The PiMan. It spans forty years of video games, book illustrations, fanzines, rock albums, and magazine artwork. Pibolar Disorder includes the entire archive of the weekly Back Page cartoon strips published throughout the golden years of UK video gaming, it is a genuine slice of home computer history, and is absolutely unique.

This collection of artwork and words is a unique record of the life-long partnership of Mel Croucher and Robin Evans, and their bonkers mission to disrupt and corrupt an entire generation. The cartoons, the illustrations, the graphic novels, the book covers, the anti-heroes and the femmes fatales - they're all here. The work of Croucher and Evans achieved cult status in the pre-digital world, and is now published in its entirety for the first time, along with the scabrous truth on what was...