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MATTHEW SMITH
This is an interview and feature I conducted in 1999. My very first website (now offline) was about Sinclair Spectrum emulation, and I was researching some pages on the mysterious "missing" Spectrum programmer Matthew Smith. Smith was a famous programmer in the early 80s, who at the tender age of sixteen coded the groundbreaking games Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy. After a certain period of time nothing was heard from him for years, and there was much speculation about his whereabouts and unfinished projects.
It was while I was researching the feature a friend of his emailed me to tell me Smith was back in the UK and had his first Internet account, and passed on his email address. It was a very big story among the retrogaming community, and unfortunately I was inexperienced and didn't get the full potential out of it. It was pretty good going, though, and was also published in Spectrum fanzines Desert Island Discs and Crashed.
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