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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>[https://www.eyles.co.uk/ Dr. Mark Eyles] started working on computers before there was a proper gaming industry in the UK. As an early employee at [[wikipedia:Quicksilva|Quicksilva]], he did everything from soldering RAM boards together to writing backstories for home versions of popular arcade titles.<br />
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In the 1990s, he did game design work for companies like Sega and [[wikipedia:Rebellion_Developments|Rebellion]]. He was also a major contributor to the UK’s ''Sonic the Comic'', writing stories for the first several dozen issues.<br />
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In [https://hiddenpalace.substack.com/p/hidden-palace-podcast-episode-8-the the interview], he describes:<br />
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* His work designing the ''Eternal Champions'' spinoff [https://segaretro.org/Chicago_Syndicate Chicago Syndicate] for Game Gear.<br />
* How game design evolved as the industry moved from home computers like the ZX-81 and ZX Spectrum to more modern consoles.<br />
* The origins of ''Sonic the Comic'', and the connection to a never-produced series called “Alternity.”<br />
* Moving to education, helping to start the [https://web.archive.org/web/20170421060444/http://genderandset.open.ac.uk/index.php/genderandset/article/view/176/272 Women In Games] conferences, writing books, and what it’s like playing games when you’re not focused on getting them made.<br />
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More links:<br />
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* There’s a [https://32bits.substack.com/p/ef47cbb7-d480-4da3-ae7c-97dbe4c535d1 research article] that accompanies this episode. Bo initially reached out to Mark after finding a cheat code in ''Chicago Syndicate'' that managed to stay hidden for three decades.<br />
* Mark wrote [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23311983.2016.1190441#abstract an account] of his experience in the early UK gaming scene that appeared in ''Cogent Arts & Humanities'' in 2016.<br />
* There are scans of Mark’s ''Sonic the Comic'' stories on the [https://archive.org/details/sonic-the-comic-high-resolution-scans/STC_035_HighResRescan/page/n21/mode/2up Internet Archive].<br />
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