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Getting to know you. Again.


ello. Some of you will already know me; most of you won’t. I’m your new Editor, and my name is Matt. Hello. Again.


Though I’m new to this position, I’m not new to the industry.


  Upchurch and Simon Byron were kind enough to pick me    


 younger years I’d sat with a copy open on my lap, diligently entering the pages and pages of basic code the magazine regularly published into my rubber-keyed Sinclair Spectrum. My dad and I would then spend weeks debugging it ‘for fun’.


      Nukem.


   


  


a wedding agency, woodworking, oh… and beekeeping. 


 was still rocking a single digit age. My dad was early into the world of computing, bringing home Apple II and Apple IIe machines, introducing me to coding and gaming at an early   becoming a proper nerd.


   my mates.


I still play all the time, and absolutely intend to bore the life out of you with my opinions. Most of my game references will be  


Anyway, I can’t tell you what an honour it is to be sitting in this  set this puppy up, and I intend to treat it with the respect it 


If I know you, please say hello. And if I don’t know you, please say hello.


 


Matt


mcvmatt@datateam.co.uk


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