CHARLES CECIL

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

REMEMBER THE BACK OF THE ARCADE, WHERE THE NOT-SO-FLASHY COIN-OPS LURKED IN THE DARKNESS, WAITING TO BE DISCOVERED? BACK IN 1987, THIS IS WHERE YOU’D LIKELY HEAR A BLOOD-CURDLING FEMALE SCREAM THAT COULD BELONG TO ONLY ONE GAME… SEGA’S COIN-OP CREATURE FEATURE ALIEN SYNDROME

Some of the other things on our minds when we weren’t doing everything else

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

Wait, what… another restomod? Any fatigue is extinguished the nanosecond you set eyes on the Encor Series 1. Sounds like a photocopier, but rare indeed is the car that looks this good straight out of