Steve Brown: Games designer and Dredd artist?

[Tiplodocus]

Flicking through Edge the other night, I came across a picture of 80s "Page 3 Stunna" Maria Whittaker* in an article about the game Barbarian. (I believe her being on the cover and the violence were it's main selling points).

Anyway, the chap what wrote the game**, Steve Brown, also appears to have been a Dredd artist; or so it says in the article.  I don't recall the name - anybody else?



* She's quite pretty if you can get beyond that melon-breasted dwarf look that was the fashion in the 80s. (I was a Kathy Lloyd fan myself).

** For you younger readers, back in the seventies and eighties you could design, write, test, publish and distribute a game on your own. The internet was known as C60 cassette tapes.

[IndigoPrime]

I've interviewed Steve a couple of times for Retro Gamer. I don't recall him ever mentioning working for 2000 AD though.

[radiator]

This from Barney:

Judge Dredd
The Hottie House Siege 1 episode (Meg 2.31) 9 pages
Script: John Wagner, Artist: Steve Brown

[Buddy]

Maria Whittaker.... now there's a blast from the past.

I always liked Linda Lusardi myself.......

[Noisybast]

Submitted without comment:

[Keef Monkey]

In other trivia, that dude holding the sword went on to be Wolf in Gladiators.

[SmallBlueThing]

And in other trivia, long-time youthful tits-oot favourite lindsay dawn mackenzie, she who was famously 'just 16' when she wopped out her tremendous gnorks in the very same paper that was decrying 'paedos' a few pages on, turned up on one of the babestation channels the other night, as i was having a desperate flick down the bum-end of the digibox. Not as a 'star', just as one of the normal writhing 'lovelies'. It says much about me that i gave a little cheer.
She hasn't drawn dredd though, to my knowledge.
SBT

[JOE SOAP]

I came across a picture of 80s "Page 3 Stunna" Maria Whittaker*

Oo er.

[I, Cosh]

I liked the little goblin who kicked the severed head of your vanquished foe off the screen.

[Mudcrab]

Brilliant game!!! I remember it well, no fighting game has ever come close to the head severing move. Loved the goblin too!

Don't remember the cover though 

[IndigoPrime]

Steve Brown, hard at work on the Barbarian cover photoshoot.

[flip-r mk2]

filip

[IndigoPrime]

I'd be surprised if that's the same Steve Brown—doesn't look much like his art style.

[Radbacker]

I've interviewed Steve a couple of times for Retro Gamer. I don't recall him ever mentioning working for 2000 AD though.

Ooh my favorite computer game mag these days had no idea you were a contributor Indigo, whats your favorite old machine?.  One of the only mags i read from cover to cover these days, quality writting and just enough of that 80's vibe to make it feel like i'm a kid again dreaming of all these exotic machines we didn't have in oz. (the good old CPC464 was over $1000 IIRC and the C64 $699 or $799 the Spectrum was never available that i can remember, I had an imported Tandy Colour Computer 1 with 64k extended RAM, disk drive and the works but as it was US my colour was always shitted on the screen i still loved it though).

CU Radbcker

[IndigoPrime]

Ooh my favorite computer game mag these days had no idea you were a contributor Indigo

Since issue 19, and almost every issue after that. I did the Civ 2 and Deathchase pieces in the current issue, and Jr. Pac-Man the month before.

whats your favorite old machine?

Old arcade games (pre-1984), swiftly followed by the C64.

One of the only mags i read from cover to cover these days, quality writting and just enough of that 80's vibe to make it feel like i'm a kid again dreaming of all these exotic machines we didn't have in oz.

Well, one thing Retro Gamer certainly has is a lot of original editorial content. Most games mags are reviews, news and PR dressed as features. I'm not sure there's another videogaming publication currently in existence with as much proper investigative journalism as Retro Gamer.