So he definitely had that energy, had that enthusiasm, had that personality to promote, get your attention…Īnd so we had done F-15, which is a flight simulator, and Gunship and we did F-19, which is a stealth fighter game. We were kind of making things up as we went along. SM: Yeah, he was an air force guy and he had the energy and the drive… he was the perfect person in those days to… it was the wild west as far as a new business, a new industry. GC: ‘Wild’ Bill Stealey… that sounded so exotically American to a young English school kid. And he was ex-air force, and had this military direction to things. We were still in the Cold War era in those days, and my partner at MicroProse, Bill Stealey, he was basically the business side of things and I was doing the design things. GC: Wasn’t it supposed to have had a Blue Thunder style urban setting originally? GC: I can’t believe I remember that! But it was fascinating to use, I think it must’ve been one of the first ever games with that kind of 3D movement. GC: What was it called, the stick that controlled the vertical movement? The collective wasn’t it? We could use some of our 3D ideas there, but it was a different control system… SM: We had done a couple of flight simulators before that and… it just seemed like a natural evolution, I guess, to do helicopters.
GC: So you weren’t a helicopter nut who really wanted to do a simulation? We learned a lot as developers with each game! Of course each system was completely different and we had to rethink everything, but I remember the 3D of Gunship and figuring out how helicopters work was kind of fun. Because we had started with the Atari, then we moved to the Commodore, and then we were in a kind of Commodore/PC transition mode. But Gunship was probably late ’80s I think, one of the first games I think that we actually wrote initially on the PC.
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