Pete Cooke

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Pete Cooke (born 1956) is a British computer games programmer, best known for his work published in the 1980s for the ZX Spectrum.

His software often used a point and click GUI.^{[citation needed]} As most Spectrum users did not own a mouse the pointer was manipulated by keyboard or joystick.

Cooke's game Tau Ceti featured a form of solid 3D graphics and was set on a planet with day and night cycles with dynamically drawn shadows. Micronaut One, released in 1987, was set inside futuristic biocomputers with the player controlling a microscopic craft attempting to clear the tunnels of an insect-like life form called Scrim. This game used fast-moving 3D graphics and featured an enemy that went through a realistic, though sped up, lifecycle, beginning each level as eggs and progressing to larvae and eventually adult Scrim which would then lay more eggs.^{[citation needed]}

As well as these games, Cooke programmed the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC versions of Stunt Car Racer and also released a game for the 16-bit Amiga and Atari ST in 1990 called Tower of Babel.^{[citation needed]}

He worked at Leicester College as an IT lecturer and he teaches students how to create computer games using Microsoft XNA.^{[citation needed]} He has created and released games for Apple Devices (iOS), including Zenfit and Everything Must Go.^{[citation needed]}

• Invincible Island (1983)^[1]
• The Inferno (1984)
• Urban Upstart (1984)
• UDG Generator (1984)
• Maze Chase (1984)
• Upper Gumtree (1985)
• Ski Star 2000 (1985)
• Juggernaut [ru] (1985)
• Tau Ceti (1985)
• Room 10 (1986)
• Academy (1986)
• Micronaut One (1987)
• Brainstorm (1987)
• Earthlight (1988)
• Zolyx (1988)
• A Whole New Ball Game (1989)
• Stunt Car Racer – ZX Spectrum conversion of Geoff Crammond's game (1989)
• Granny's Garden (1989)
• Tower Of Babel (1990)
• Grand Prix (1992)
• Grand Prix 2 (1996)
• Grand Prix 3 (2000)
• Zenfit (iOS) (2012)
• Everything Must Go (iOS) (2013) ^[2]

• Feature on Pete Cooke from a 1987 issue of Crash magazine.
• Pete Cooke by Retro Gamer Team, 15 July 2014.
• Zenfit on Apple App Store^{[dead link]} Zenfit on Apple App Store.
• Everything Must Go on Apple App Store Everything Must Go on Apple App Store.