He was innate inside London, but his personal moved within the area of a good deal eventually ending higher in Liverpool. He began retired programming on a TRS-80. His foremost commercial game was the Galaxian rip-off for the TRS-80 known as Delta Tower 1. He so went in to develop the game on the VIC-20 called Monster Muncher.

He loaned the ZX Spectrum from either Bug-Byte and his first game for the two was Styx in 1983.

He wrote Manic Miner in just six weeks & it was an instant profits. When numerous games at the period were quite basic & amateur, on this text was an moorage plaform game by owning within-game music (a number 1 for the ZX Spectrum). A sequel, Jet Set Willy , took considerably hanker to write & was an possibly large profits. Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy are two of the best known & popular ZX Spectrum games.

When a creation of Jet Placed Willy he began function on The Mega Tree for publication by his company Software Projects. Unlike his last deuce hits A Mega Tree was non developed for a ZX Spectrum however the Commodore 64. A plan failed to benefit traction & was abandoned trine months into development. Both projects for the ZX Spectrum were besides never finished; Attack of the Mutant Zombie Flesh Eating Chickens From Mars and Miner Willy Meets A Taxman.

Smith closed Programs Projects around 1988 without completing any more software & vanished awhile. He was sleep in the Dutch commune from around 1995 and reappeared on the Internet in the late 1990s.

Inside 1999 Smith returned to the UK industry by taking the job at Dewsbury-based computer game creator Runecraft. Alas his employment there was comparatively short-passing & resulted within merely of these newly back (Scrabble for the Game Boy Color) from a Octad-bit secret writing virtuoso of the 1980s.