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Post by johnnyboy on Feb 8, 2005 9:25:37 GMT -5
I didn't mind Don. Once you accepted he was just a very exhuberant happy person you got a handle on him.
In comparison the rest of us were such a bunch of miserable cynics.
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Post by Paulie on Feb 8, 2005 10:37:41 GMT -5
My public apologies to BJ and Elmer - my memory has obviously gone the same way as my hair (down the plug hole).
Is this Johnny Meegan? How the devil are you? Didn't you produce C12 on the PSOne?
I got cajoled into doing a piece for a Retro Mag a while ago - I was saying in that whatever happened to the the formidable duo of Meegan and Thompson.
Bill's done a great service putting this site together don't ya think - all we need to do is find out if Fossil is still on his mortal coil and we'll be sorted!
Don was a character! Who could forget him trying to "chat up" the girls across the street from Lancashire House by throwing biscuits at them!
- Paulie.
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Post by johnnyboy on Feb 8, 2005 11:03:14 GMT -5
Hi Paul,
Indeed it is me. I did C12 (You might have been able to tell with the mischieveous script and the cheesy b-movie theme!)
Yeah, life's pretty cool at the moment. I'm taking a sabbatical, readying myself for another 10 years hard grind.
I wa laughing when I read the Colin Stokes strand. As you always did the mastering, you were always on the front-line of all the flak. Even when you got in the van to Ablex!
I talked to Steve Thomson a few years back. He's now happily married with two lovely kids.
I hope I find you in suitably fine fettle.
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Post by Gary on Feb 8, 2005 11:28:38 GMT -5
Hi John.
Didn't realise it was you, as it was typed with an English accent.
Hope all is going well. Kick Mr Dunn's arse for not sharing his presence here.....
Notice Barry Leitch pops in - tell him!
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Post by Paulie on Feb 8, 2005 11:34:16 GMT -5
Nice to talk to you after all these years bud!
Fettling along nicely thanks (still in Wigan, but with a Wife and two little girls in tow) - just taking a recharge break myself before the next HUGE push...
(Nowt wrong with cheesy B movie scripts - we founded our company on cheesy scripts - Privateer 2, StarLancer and Star Trek all replete with cliche - if it works for Joe Eszterhas!!!)
Are you still at Sony?
- Paulie.
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Post by JamesHiggins on Feb 8, 2005 12:47:46 GMT -5
Funny you say that about Don. The only other programmer I know who worked with him was Mick West and he had a similar point of view.
Getting back to John (coxie - deliberate choice of spelling). Didn't John Meegan coin that particular nickname for him? I never dissed John (although I do give him sh*t on a daily basis now) because back at my early days at Ocean I was thoroughly intimidated by him. I know, hard to be intimidated by someone who looks like Elmer Fudd, but I was young and he had mastered the art of looking at you with contempt if you so much as asked him a question that he thought was even slightly stupid.
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Post by Paulie on Feb 8, 2005 13:23:40 GMT -5
LOL - I knew that single raised eyebrow look only too well. It was worth those looks though - man, he wrote (and I assume still is writing!) damn fine code.
...actually talking of Mick West - who was that artist he brought with him to Ocean - everyone called him Darth Vader on account of his bad chest. I remember him turning up with a digital camera circa 1990 - f**k knows what that must've cost him back then.
- P.
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Post by Bill Harbison on Feb 8, 2005 13:52:22 GMT -5
Matty Cannon used to play the march from Star Wars every time he came round.
dun dun dun dun dadun dun dadun ...
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Post by JamesHiggins on Feb 8, 2005 14:23:01 GMT -5
His name was James Clarke. Went he left (urged to move on from) Ocean he went to Software Creations. Ran into him a couple of times around town but have no idea where he is now.
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Post by Rab on Feb 8, 2005 17:02:17 GMT -5
His name was James Clarke. Went he left (urged to move on from) Ocean he went to Software Creations. Ran into him a couple of times around town but have no idea where he is now. Last time I heard from him he was working at Pivotal in Bath...
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Post by johnnyboy on Feb 8, 2005 19:44:16 GMT -5
Funny you say that about Don. The only other programmer I know who worked with him was Mick West and he had a similar point of view. Getting back to John (coxie - deliberate choice of spelling). Didn't John Meegan coin that particular nickname for him? I never dissed John (although I do give him sh*t on a daily basis now) because back at my early days at Ocean I was thoroughly intimidated by him. I know, hard to be intimidated by someone who looks like Elmer Fudd, but I was young and he had mastered the art of looking at you with contempt if you so much as asked him a question that he thought was even slightly stupid. Coxie was spawned by Rab Hemphill,and never refuted by Jay C (Aka Elmer), ((aka spoiled brat (cousin Valerie)) or disputed by moi (comedy fruit) - either due to sheer ignorance or utter lack of intrerest. Expand on how much you get the Scissor Sisters . . . . irrespective of quite how cool you want to come across to "the kids". Rab H, your elucidation . . . 15ye later on, how comedic? You created a monster from somewhere outside Loch Ness!
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Post by johnnyboy on Feb 8, 2005 19:54:20 GMT -5
Far, far more interesting:
Evil Vibrations (Mighty Ryders) vs The Rebirth dedication. Marks out of 10 for either?
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Post by johnnyboy on Feb 8, 2005 20:11:57 GMT -5
Doin' it for the kids . . . Ho Ho
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Post by elmer on Feb 8, 2005 21:25:26 GMT -5
Coxie was spawned by Rab Hemphill,and never refuted by Jay C (Aka Elmer), ((aka spoiled brat (cousin Valerie)) or disputed by moi (comedy fruit) - either due to sheer ignorance or utter lack of intrerest. Ouch! Still aspiring to be the industry's Quentin Crisp, I see. So, what are you up to these days John? It's been years since I saw you last (visiting Mike if I remember).
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Post by Simon Butler on Feb 9, 2005 8:15:02 GMT -5
The last time I saw Vader he was working for Pocket Studios, a GBA development team somewhere in London. I didn't recognise him at all...he had to actually tell me who he was.
He contacted me after he left Pocket looking for work...it never happened...although his work on the GBA was pretty damn stunning.
Hello there Mr Meegan...I believe you're somewhere here in Liverpool?
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