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Earlier this week we sadly lost Roger Kean, co-founder of the legendary Crash and Zzap!64 magazines amongst many others. If you’d like to learn more about the legacy of Crash, Graeme told its story in brilliant detail for us back in 2017.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

\nAs with the passing of his friend, colleague and partner Oliver Frey, the death of Roger Kean, anticipated but no less sad, has dismayed so many retro gaming fans in the last week, particularly those affiliated with the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 computers.\n<\/p>\n

\nTogether with Frey and his brother Franco, Kean formed Newsfield Publishing in 1983. Both Kean and Frey had cut their publishing teeth at the London publisher Alan Purnell. The experience was a crash course in the process of publishing, working with CRTronic typesetting, photo-mechanical tints, rotary drum laser scanning and more, all proving invaluable when later setting up Newsfield.\n<\/p>\n

Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – eurogamer.net<\/p>\n

All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with full credit to the source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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