Dundee convinced the American company National Cash Register Corporation, better known as NCR, to build their principal manufacturing plant for Britain and much of Europe there as early as 1945, and by the 1960s the city was known throughout Britain as a hub of electronics manufacture. And one of these vectors of economic possibility - yet again as in Liverpool - was electronics. Leaders in Dundee, as in Liverpool, worked earnestly to find new foundations for their city’s economy. Like Imagine, DMA was born in a city far from the cultural capitals of Britain - even farther away than Liverpool, in fact, all the way up in Dundee, Scotland.ĭundee as well had traditionally been a working-class town that thrived as a seaport, until the increasing size of merchant ships gradually made the role untenable over the course of the twentieth century.
There are some interesting parallels between the early days of DMA Design and the early days of Imagine Software, that predecessor to Psygnosis. People have a way of surprising you sometimes. From their generic teenage-cool titles to their rote gameplay, both games were as typical of Psygnosis as anything else in their catalog.Īnd yet DMA Design - and particularly their leader, David Jones - did in fact have abilities as yet undreamt of.
Certainly Menace and Blood Money, the two games DMA had already created for Psygnosis, gave little sign that any visionaries lurked within their ranks. If you had looked at the state of Psygnosis in 1990 and tried to decide which of their outside developers would break the mold of beautiful-but-empty action games, you would have no reason to single out DMA Design over any of the others. (courtesy of the January 1991 issue of The One) They burn in hell - like distress flares.” “Mummy, when a lemming dies does it go to heaven like all good little girls?” “Mummy, what’s a group of lemmings called?”
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