It’s been thirty years since the series’ earthworms clashed with bazookas, sheep bombs or exploding bananas: the first video game Wormfrom English studio Team17, launched on November 17, 1995 on Amiga computers. Each pixel battle is a mini massacre between heavily armed earthworms that attack each other in turn and, in the process, destroy the surrounding decorations. The recipe has become a cult: with its twenty episodes, the franchise has surpassed 75 million sales.
This concept of global success began modestly, in Andy Davidson’s bedroom, in 1991. A 17-year-old English high school student living in Bournemouth, a coastal town in the south of England, he programmed an artillery shooting game on his Casio calculator. “It was still simple, but I had created a random landscape generator and it really sparked my imagination. I wanted to see how far I could go with the much more powerful Amiga”he said World.
On the computer, tanks can now move. However, the influence of lemmings (1991), from Scots DMA Design, prompted him to replace his tank with a small character: an earthworm. “I liked the idea of simple, harmless creatures engaging in excessive and violent behavior. It was of course hilarious, and I tried to exploit this humor in all its forms”continued Andy Davidson.
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