About
Hello! My name’s Mark Green and at various points so far I’ve been European Editorial Coordinator at Nintendo; a writer of online content for Disney; Online Editor for BT Vision; Editor of NGamer Magazine and lots more. I’m currently Web Producer for the National Railway Museum in York.
I’m using this blog to publish some of my previous writing – like my many interviews with videogame developers. You’ll also find the odd new blog post, probably about games or the web.
Various work
A huge book review feature published in Edge in 2005: lots of recommended reading for videogame enthusiasts.
Full version of an NGC magazine interview with Giles Goddard, providing a rare glimpse behind-the-scenes at Nintendo during development of Super Mario 64.
A lookback at the development of ZX Spectrum classic Skool Daze for Retro Gamer magazine. This was the first interview with artist Keith Warrington and only the second with coder Dave Reidy since the game’s launch in 1985.
From 1999, an extract from a feature on the original Driver (jpg), in which I quizzed pretty much every single person on the development team. Questions like “How do you make crates fall over?” were asked and answered. I was young.
A huge timeline of videogame history (jpg) from Future’s shortlived Arcade magazine. Don’t worry, it’s not your eyes – the text really is that small. Squint hard and see if you can spot the two deliberate mistakes.
A report on the 2004 Leipzig Games Convention for MCV.
The Super Mario Wiki has the complete collection of Wario’s Warehouse articles that Richard Moulton and I co-wrote at Nintendo. Several of our silly throwaway ideas are now apparently thought of as Nintendo canon. That’s awkward.
A Science Museum blog post about ‘real-life interactive fiction’ experiment, The Unbuilt Room.
Susannah Shute and I do a Writing For The Web talk that includes lots of pictures of internet-famous animals. We’ve given it to the Museum Association (PDF) and the School for Startups (run by Doug Richards of first-series-of-BBC-Dragon’s-Den fame).