Those of us who grew up in the 80s delight what was UK computing, the Spectrum, the Amstrad, or the Commodore 64, will recognise the name of Jeff Minter with delight. Jeff has been the cause of some much missed homework and the creator of some of the weirdest, time consuming, eye bending games with sheep cameos.
Game titles such as "Attack of the Mutant Camels" and "Sheep in Space" give you some idea of the mind behind the madness. Jeff is often described as "a long-haired, Pink Floyd-loving, sheep-raising, curry-eating gaming guru."
Starting off with his own company, Llamasoft he developed for the UK 8 bit market. Moving from there to Atari he developed for the ST, the Jaguar and their relatively unknown Falcon.
As he's now a noder here, he's probably the best person to correct and update this :) For those of you who want to see the sort of games listening to Pink Floyd causes you can download some from his web page at http://www.magicnet.net/~yak/index.html