CHARLES CECIL

The would-be PS4 sleeper hit that never fully awoke to its potential

In the early Nineties, Dan was a TV regular as the European Sega Champion. Over the decades that followed, he’d head into development, write gargantuan guides, break big news stories and help to guide a beloved magazine’s final issues. We catch up with him to relive the ups and downs of a sometimes tempestuous career

FORMED IN 1984 BY TWO MARKETING EXECUTIVES WITH ZERO EXPERIENCE IN THE GAMES INDUSTRY, DOMARK WENT ON TO BECOME ONE OF THE MOST PROMINENT UK SOFTWARE HOUSES OF THE EIGHTIES AND NINETIES. RETRO GAMER LOOKS BACK AT ITS MOST SIGNIFICANT GAMES WITH COFOUNDER DOMINIC WHEATLEY

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The industry’s finest sustainable storyteller shifts towards ‘fireside menace’