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

Tim and Darran look back at early gaming mags

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Saying goodbye to one of Harlow’s finest

Dear Simon, I was particularly interested in Sylvia Lee’s item on Cope’s Pools in Yesterday Remembered (Pools Party, December). I worked at the company’s offices in Edmonton, north London in 1966-67.

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