5/29/2023 0 Comments Tim follin![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Tim Follin was still spending most of his time with the C64 and Spectrum despite his work with the ever popular NES. He worked on arrangements for ports such as Peter Pack Rat, Ghouls'n Ghosts, and got his first experienced on the NES with the arrangement for Flying Shark which we know as Sky Shark. This trend would mostly continue as the various computers of the late 80s were filled with arcade ports, and Software Creations did a lot of them. Many of these were nothing more than arrangements to fit onto the ZX Spectrum or C64 for ports of popular arcade games. There he worked on arrangements for Spectrum and Commodore 64 games such as Agent X I and II, Chronos, Scumball, The Sentinel, Bubble Bobble, Renegade, Bionic Commando and various others. For his fourth game, he also programmed one of the mini games, as well as the sound for Future Games.Īfter these first four games Tim and Mike were hired on at Software Creations. His first 3 channel driver game was Vectron. Their second game was a Galaxian inspired shooter called Star Firebirds for the Spectrum, in which he learned how to use a 2 channel driver. He kept working with his brother for the first part of his career. That was all he needed.Īt first he was making arrangements for ports of arcade games with his first work being on his brother Mike's game Subterranen Stryker for the ZX Spectrum. During his childhood he had no formal music training but attended a year of Liverpool's Sandown Music College. He was rather young to be part of the earliest pioneers, but landed his first job in the video game industry working for Insight Studios at the tender age of 15. Tim Follin is one of the most influential Western composers in the history of the industry. ![]()
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