Author Archives: Gareth

Whilst the days of selecting your game from the shelf, placing the cassette in the deck, pressing SHIFT + RUN/STOP and following the on screen instruction to PRESS PLAY ON TAPE before sitting back to marvel at some classic 8-bit artwork accompanied my another Rob Hubbard masterpiece (or going downstairs to make a nice cup of tea) are long gone, the pre-loader very much lives on with Flash games (all be it with a heavy advert bias).

I wanted to ceate a preloader that captured the fit inducing brilliance of those early loading screens with their multicoloured fast loaders forcing data through video memory…