We had to make a spoof of the department store, "Harrobs".Īdam: I made the still image cut scenes between levels. I just thought it suited 60s London – it had to be pretty grimy. I made it look more drab than the original game. Kevin did the hardest part, switching the driver's side to UK and rebuilding traffic logic. It was limited to whatever memory the original game had, and we couldn’t really mess with the code. There wasn’t much heavy programming to do. Ray: It was like doing a ROM hack – basically taking the existing programming and changing the graphics. This was the first time I'd experienced a worldwide "modding" frenzy. We photographed the cars and split the palette, so we could do things like getting the British flag on the Jaguar.Īdam: Ray taking those top-down photos of toy cars, touching them up and putting them into the game was magic. People working there must have thought it was crazy. We walked into that place and just cleaned them out of every British car.
Ray: We went to a shopping centre in Mississauga and found a shop that just sold Diecast cars. I think some of it eventually worked its way into our vernacular in the office. Nobody questioned it.īlair: We're Canadian, so we had no idea about this whole Cockney rhyming slang thing at first. If you hit the handbrake on the dirt, you got a big brown skid-mark. Ray: I was crazy about Viz magazine, so I was like, "Ah cool, we're doing a London game, we have to have 'dog's eggs' on the sidewalk." I made it so that some of the sidewalk tiles had dog shit on them. I've never been to London, but I feel like I know where everything is. I learned the entire layout of London to get the map right. You had to immerse yourself in this world and see what ideas would spring up. I remember watching Bullet and The Italian Job. Blair: It was our homework to watch old 1960s English movies – anything with a car chase in it, basically – to get a feel.
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