“Ceiling tiles were displaced and light fittings were dangling by their cables”.
There are a lot of common problems that tend to crop up while making a video game, but having your whole office destroyed in an explosion isn’t typically one of them. Nevertheless, that’s exactly what happened to Perfect Entertainment’s Manchester studio in 1996 while it was in the process of co-developing the Sega Saturn port of FIFA ’97 and the PC adventure game Discworld II, alongside its London head office.
On Saturday, June 15th, 1996, members of the IRA planted a lorry bomb on Corporation Street near the Arndale shopping center in Manchester, in the UK, leading an estimated 80,000 people to evacuate the city center.
Read the full article on timeextension.com
“Ceiling tiles were displaced and light fittings were dangling by their cables”.
There are a lot of common problems that tend to crop up while making a video game, but having your whole office destroyed in an explosion isn’t typically one of them. Nevertheless, that’s exactly what happened to Perfect Entertainment’s Manchester studio in 1996 while it was in the process of co-developing the Sega Saturn port of FIFA ’97 and the PC adventure game Discworld II, alongside its London head office.
On Saturday, June 15th, 1996, members of the IRA planted a lorry bomb on Corporation Street near the Arndale shopping center in Manchester, in the UK, leading an estimated 80,000 people to evacuate the city center.
Read the full article on timeextension.com
