Raffaele Cecco

Raffaele Cecco, born 10 May 1967, is a British video games developer who has created numerous video games since 1984, including Cybernoid and Exolon. He grew up in Tottenham in North London.

Due to the popularity of Cecco's video games he was asked to write a monthly diary for CRASH magazine, the first installment being 15 April 1988.^[1] The diary documented the development of Stormlord.

He first started programming on a ZX81 and his first release was Cop-Out, published by Mikro-Gen in 1986.^[2]

Partial list of games

These are games that Cecco has developed or been closely associated with.

• Equinox (1986, Mikro-Gen)
• Cybernoid (1988, Hewson Consultants)
• Exolon (1987, Hewson Consultants)
• Stormlord (1989, Hewson Consultants)
• First Samurai (1991, Vivid Image)

A compilation of his games, Cecco's Collection, was released by Hewson in 1990, and includes Exolon, Cybernoid, Cybernoid II, and Stormlord. Your Sinclair awarded this compilation 92%, describing it as a fine three-year collection of Cecco's achievements and a succinct history of Spectrum programming to that date. The reviewer, Andy Ide, also considered Cecco as one of the Spectrum's biggest stars.^[3]

External links

• CRASH issue 59 at CRASH Online; Programmers on Programmers article.
• (in French) Amstrad Cent pour Cent issue 14; an interview.

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