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Stuart Campbell first entered the world of videogaming in 1977, when he won a home Pong console in a competition he didn't enter held in a town he hadn't visited. He was the UK's National Videogames Champion in 1988 (having previously won the Scottish title), and a member of the UK's winning European Videogame Championship team in Paris in 1990, subsequently retiring from competition undefeated "to give everyone else a chance".

He subsequently became a professional videogaming journalist, and wrote for the ZX Spectrum magazine Your Sinclair
in the early 1990s and the legendary Amiga games magazine Amiga Power
from 1991 to 1994, serving as its acting editor for 10 issues between June 1993 and April 1994.After leaving Amiga Power, he became Development Manager at celebrated videogame developer Sensible Software during 1994 and 1995, overseeing the development of the chart-topping games Cannon Fodder 2 (for which he also designed most of the levels) and Sensible World Of Soccer.During this time he was responsible (along with certain contemporaries) for defining the style of videogames journalism throughout the late 1980s and 1990s. His work set the bar for the standard of passionate and informed writing expected by those reading such magazines.

Stuart owns approximately 36,000 video games, and hates mouse-and-keyboard controls, online gaming and Queen (the pop group, not the monarch), but he loves crisps (potato chips) and has often served as an expert on the subject on TV and radio. He lives in Bath, England.

Quotes about Stuart Campbell

"Stuart Campbell is the country’s top authority on computer and video games." - Wired
"Britain's best games journalist" - Need To Know
"Has forgotten more about computer and video games than most of us will ever know." - PC Gamer
"Stuart Campbell is the most feared software hatchet man in the business." - X-Gen
"Being a proper videogame journalist (y'know, investigating and reporting pertinent issues rather than lazily regurgitating press releases like some fat has-beens) makes Stuart something of a rarity." - P2 magazine
"Games reviewing’s own cross between Barry Norman and Vinnie Jones." - Amiga Format
"Undoubtedly the hardest bastard in known games journalism" – NTK
"Universally hated by the games industry." - Jez San
, Argonaut
"So good, even that b*st*rd Stuart Campbell likes it" - publishers Renegade, in a 1992 advert for their game "The Chaos Engine" in trade newspaper CTW.

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