Stavros Fasoulas

Stavros Fasoulas is one of the most famous Finnish game programmers in the late 1980s. He is mostly known as the designer and developer of the Commodore 64 games "Sanxion", "Delta" and "Quedex". The games were published by the British publisher Thalamus.

"Sanxion" (1986) and "Delta" (1987) were pretty much standard-issue shoot 'em ups. "Sanxion" had a split screen which allowed the action to be presented from two different viewpoints. The music in "Sanxion" and "Delta" has been composed by the famous video game music composer Rob Hubbard. "Quedex" (1987) was a game with an original idea, where the player steered a ball in a maze. Fasoulas's promising career as a game programmer was cut short when he was drafted into the Finnish Defence Forces.

For the Amiga Fasoulas made a game called "Galactic", slightly resembling "Bubble Bobble". The Finnish computer magazine "Pelit" gave the game a fairly good review. Fasoulas never found a publisher for the game, and it was finally published as a slightly unfinished Christmas edition as a cover disk in the British computer magazine "The One".

In the 1990s Fasoulas and Ilari Kuittinen founded the company Terramarque which is currently known as Housemarque after its fusion with Bloodhouse.

Fasoulas is currently living in San Francisco and has no ties with the computer industry. It is rumoured that he has only ever surfed the Internet once and does not even have an e-mail account. [ [http://www.c64.com/articles/thalamus_history.html Thalamus History] ]

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