Hewson Consultants

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Hewson was founded by Andrew Hewson in the early 1980s. He became interested in computers while working at the British Museum when their first machine arrived.<ref name="oll">Template:Cite episode</ref> After learning to program, Andrew wrote the programming guide book Hints and Tips for the ZX80.<ref name="oll"/> Following the publication, bedroom coders began to send Andrew the games they had programmed on cassette tape, giving him the idea to publish the games. Hewson Consultants was born, and initially released games via mail order advertisements in computing magazines.<ref name="oll"/> Andrew was also a columnist in Sinclair User magazine throughout the 1980s.<ref name="oll"/>

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Legacy

Andrew and other members of the Hewson management team went on to form 21st Century Entertainment<ref name="mycommodore64.com">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> after Hewson shut down in the early 1990s, releasing several games such as Pinball Dreams,<ref name="mycommodore64.com"/> Pinball Fantasies and Pinball Illusions. Andrew was also the founder of ELSPA (European Leisure Software Publishers Association) which continues to be the European regulating body for the video games industry.

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