Thumb Candy

Thumb Candy

Thumb Candy was a Channel 4 documentary about the history of computer games which was made by "Talkback" in 2000.

It was hosted by Iain Lee who interviewed the people who were involved in creating the first big video games.

The programme features interviews with:

*Steve Russell - creator of "Spacewar!"
*Nolan Bushnell of Atari
* Al Alcorn - creator of "Pong"
*Toshihiro Nishikado - creator of "Space Invaders"
*Ed Logg - creator of "Asteroids"
*Toru Iwatani - creator of "Pac-Man"
*Clive Sinclair discussing the ZX Spectrum
*Matthew Smith on "Manic Miner" and "Jet Set Willy"
*Shigeru Miyamoto on "Donkey Kong"
*Alexey Pazhitnov on "Tetris"
*Toby Gard on the "Tomb Raider" video game series
*Steven Poole, author of Trigger Happy


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