Gordon J. Key

Gordon J. Key authored video game software for the BBC Micro and Acorn RISC OS platforms. He also authored Party Machine for the Amstrad CPC. His most well-known works were published by The Fourth Dimension (earlier known as Impact Software). In an article about the Acorn Electron referring to Key's Holed Out! golf simulator, Steve Botterill (the co-founder of The Fourth Dimension) referred to Key as being "one of the most brilliant programmers" he had ever met.

In a forum thread on The Icon Bar in 2010, Key answered a number of questions posed by registered members.

List of games

 * Clogger (BBC Micro/Acorn Electron)
 * E-Type (BBC Micro/Acorn Electron/Acorn Archimedes, 1989)
 * Holed Out! (BBC Micro/Acorn Electron/Acorn Archimedes, 1989)
 * Apocalypse (Acorn Archimedes, 1990)
 * Break 147 / Superpool (Acorn Archimedes, 1991)
 * Black Angel (Acorn Archimedes, 1992)
 * Haunted House (Acorn Archimedes)
 * The Time Machine (Acorn Archimedes)
 * E-Type 2 (Acorn Archimedes/RiscPC)
 * Virtual Golf (Acorn Archimedes/RiscPC)
 * Pendragon (BBC Micro)

Other credits
Key is also credited with additional programming routines in FedNet's futuristic flight combat game Star Fighter 3000 (1994).