Commodore 64 Games

by Kevin Bergin

192 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1984

About the author

I wrote my first book in the early 80's, it was called Commodore 64 Games. It was published in 1984 by Duckworth's in London and was followed by 10 other books mostly to do with games creation and a couple of them were far more technical.

From 1979 to 1987 I was involved in the creation of many games and wrote the books mentioned here as well as writing for all the Computer periodicals in the UK and the USA. I also wrote for many daily papers (computer reviews) and had a column in two of them including The Australian and the Sydney Morning Herald.

didn't consider myself a writer at all in this phase, it was more of a side issue. So when I came to live in Melbourne and started designing 'business' and commercial software I was surprised to discover how much I missed writing.

Since then I have started writing fictional books many times and never followed through. More recently I started a story and was supported by a friend who is an actor and writes screenplays, we helped each other. I completed a short story about six months ago but have not edited it or tried to get it published, but what I have done is taken the original idea which was a day in the life of a few different characters in the 60's in and around London and expanded that idea to be a day in the life of several characters told from three times. I love writing, I still work as a software designer and would love to write another game as I have some wonderful ideas.

I have lived in Hobsons Bay (Newport) on and off since 2001, love being near water and love the community. I was born in Sompting which is on the South Coast of England near Brighton, so the continuity for me is the community and the sea.