William Tang
Moby ID: 147391
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William Tang is a game designer and programmer. He is best known for creating the Horace games, although the actual Horace character was created by Alfred Milgrom. Tang was Beam Software's first employee, joining the company in 1981.
As well as the Horace titles Tang also worked on the games The Way of the Exploding Fist, Mugsy’s Revenge and Asterix and the Magic Cauldron.
Tang also edited the book Spectrum Machine Language for the Absolute Beginner which was released in 1982.
Credited on 8 games
| Horace Goes to the Tower (2011, ZX Spectrum) | Dedicated to |
| Mugsy's Revenge (1986, ZX Spectrum) | By |
| Ardok the Barbarian (1986, ZX Spectrum) | By |
| Kung-Fu: The Way of the Exploding Fist (1985, ZX Spectrum) | Additional Programming |
| Horace & The Spiders (1983, ZX Spectrum) | Written by |
| Hungry Horace (1982, ZX Spectrum) | Author |
| Strike Force (1982, TRS-80) | Written by |
| Horace Goes Skiing (1982, ZX Spectrum) | Written by |
Frequent Collaborators
People- 1 game with Gregg Barnett
- 1 game with Greg Holland
- 1 game with Frank Oldham
- 1 game with Andrew Pierson
- 1 game with Javier Peña
- 1 game with Alvin Albrecht
- 1 game with Clifford Ramshaw
- 1 game with Jaime Tejedor Gómez
- 1 game with Dan Weiss
- 1 game with Stephen Taylor
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Companies
- 7 games with Krome Studios Melbourne
- 3 games with Psion Software Ltd.
- 3 games with Sinclair Research Ltd.
- 3 games with Investronica
- 1 game with Words & Pictures Limited
- 1 game with Ubhres Productions
- 1 game with Ricochet
- 1 game with Mojon Twins, The
- 1 game with Melbourne House Software, Inc.
- 1 game with Mastertronic Ltd.
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