From exploding lightbulbs to the Knights Templar – via Ron Howard and the Daleks

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

GAMES ARE OFTEN CANCELLED, AND THIS WAS ESPECIALLY TRUE IN THOSE TURBULENT EARLY YEARS OF THE UK VIDEOGAMES INDUSTRY. MOST DEVELOPERS WOULD EXPERIENCE A FEW, BUT ENIGMA VARIATIONS AND THE OWNERS’ SUBSEQUENT COMPANIES HAD MORE THAN THEIR FAIR SHARE. IT’S TIME TO DISCOVER WHY

Chess sets and backgammon boards are a familiar sight on drawing-room tables, but one expert Highland woodworker is refashioning their forms in beautiful new ways, writes Mary Miers

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