Steve Turner
Born1954 (1954)
Occupation(s)computer game musician
designer

Steve Turner is a former computer game musician and designer. His development team, Graftgold, mostly wrote for games published by Hewson Consultants during the 1980s.

The first computer he bought was a ZX80 which had to be assembled by hand. At school he was a member of a computing club where he learnt the Algol 60 programming language. During the 1970s he added Cobol to his repertoire from a government funded training course. He went on to a programming job in the Civil Service. Turner was 30 when he decided to move into games development. His first game was written whilst he was still employed as a programmer and he handed his notice in when he received his first royalty cheque.[1]

He also wrote a series of articles for ZX Computing between August 1986 and January 1987, called The Professional Touch.[2] Andrew Hewson had previously written for the magazine but got too busy to do it and Turner replaced them.[3]

List of games

For Hewson Consultants:

  • 3D Space Wars (1983)
  • 3D Seiddab Attack (1984)
  • 3D Lunattack (1984)[4]
  • Avalon (1984)[3]
  • Dragontorc (1985)[3]
  • Astroclone (1985)
  • Uridium (1986) (music)
  • Alleykat (1986) (music)
  • Quazatron (1986)[4]
  • Ranarama (1987)
  • Zynaps (1987) (music)
  • Magnetron (1988)

References

  1. ↑ "Steve Turner | Retro Gamer". 3 February 2024.
  2. ↑ http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=Programming%3a+The+Professional+Touch&loadpics=on
  3. 1 2 3 "RVG Interviews: Steve Turner". 26 April 2019.
  4. 1 2 "Steve Turner (Graftgold) - Interview". Arcade Attack. 26 January 2018.


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