{"id":1029,"date":"2006-07-21T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-21T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/?p=1029"},"modified":"2006-07-21T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-21T12:00:00","slug":"steve-cain-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/21\/steve-cain-rip\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Cain RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I received the sad news that Steve Cain died from cancer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I worked with Steve at Imagine Software for a while and hung around him for a few years more. In some ways, he was one of a number of surrogate big brothers I picked up, because most of them were older than me. Steve had the good fortune to be one of the few guys in a team of largely female artists who I spent quite a bit of time hanging out with 😉<\/p>\n

Here’s a picture<\/a> of him when we were both working at Imagine Software<\/a>, just prior to Imagine going bust, the ‘Mega-games’ never to be seen. After that, Steve went on to start Denton Designs<\/a> with a group of other industry notables in Liverpool. They were my friends for a number of years and I’d often just hang around the smoke-filled office, talking rubbish. One thing I remember quite clearly is showing Steve an early demo of Grog’s Revenge and being chuffed that he rated it and was obviously a bit surprised that I could write Z80 after all 😉<\/p>\n

I hadn’t seen Steve for years. Although I knew he’d become quite ill with cancer, I thought he was getting better, so I’ll leave the closing words to someone who was much closer to him.<\/p>\n

“He fought to the end and was incredibly positive. We will miss him loads.”<\/p>\n

Rest in Peace, Steve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I received the sad news that Steve Cain died from cancer. I worked with Steve at Imagine Software for a while and hung around him for a few years more. In some ways, he was one of a number of surrogate big brothers I picked up, because most of them were older than me.… Continue reading Steve Cain RIP<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1064,"url":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/23\/an-open-letter-to-steve-jobs\/","url_meta":{"origin":1029,"position":0},"title":"An Open Letter to Steve Jobs","date":"August 23, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"You have to laugh. 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