Mel Croucher
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Mel Croucher is a British businessman and journalist. Originally an architect, he moved into computers and set up the UK's first leisure software company Automata, registered on 19 November 1977. This label published several games for the early home computer market including three Computer Trade Association award-winners - Pimania(1982), Groucho (1983, aka My Name Is Uncle Groucho, You Win A Fat Cigar), and the groundbreaking "multi-media" title Deus Ex Machina (1984).
He has also written text books, computer manuals and comedy, and worked as a journalist, writing regular columns like Without Prejudice, The Rubber Room, and a sci-fi humorous serial called Tamara Knight for the ZX Spectrum magazine CRASH in the 1980s[1], as well as columns for various computer magazines since.
He is currently CEO of MelCroucher.com, an internet creative and marketing company.
He also writes Zygote in Computer Shopper every month since 1987, the Rants And Raves column and the Great Moments In Computing cartoon in the same magazine.
[edit] Video Games
[edit] External links
- Official site of melcroucher.com
- Interview with Mel Croucher from May 2001, mainly focussing on video games.
[edit] References
- ^ Tamara Knight Issue 1. CRASH Online. Newsfield. Retrieved on 2006-05-23.
