Recently I’ve been flirting with retro gaming again. It’s not purely driven by nostalgia  – some of those games I ‘wasted’ hours days on as a kid have truly stood the test of time.

As my flirtation grew into something more serious I stumbled upon an old hero of mine – Jeff Minter. Jeff (owner of Llamasoft Ltd -ah! first clue) used to make utterly baffling games which seemed totally different to everything else out there. His games might not have played to convention but there was a definite formula to them:

1/ Camelids. By the truck load.
2/ Actually it’s just #1. But it’s an important point.

I like how my recent foray into the wonderful world of retro gaming dovetailed with my interest in alpacas by finding a perfect point of similarity. I also like how Jeff now owns a farm in Wales (ah, the motherland) which is home to llamas and alpacas, and has a blog on livejournal with the subdomain stinkygoat.

Cheers Jeff – great times and a great inspiration.

Posted by Anthony.