Editing Jeff Minter (section)

===Commercial 8-bit games===
In 1981 Minter started independently writing and selling video games for the [[ZX80]], the first machine he owned.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kotaku.co.uk/2017/01/13/britsoft-focus-jeff-minter|title = Britsoft focus jeff minter}}</ref> Some were made for software company dk'tronics.<ref name="dadgum.com">{{cite web|url=https://dadgum.com/halcyon/BOOK/MINTER.HTM|title=Jeff Minter|work=Halcyon Days: Interviews with Classic Computer and Video Game Programmers}}</ref> These titles were sold as a package but this was not available for very long, as Minter left the company following a royalties dispute.<ref name="minotaurproject.co.uk"/> He formed a partnership with his mother, Hazel Minter. Together they developed and commercially produced 20 games for the [[ZX81]], [[VIC-20]], [[Atari 8-bit computers]], [[ZX Spectrum]], and [[Commodore 64]]. Having been studying physics at the [[University of East Anglia]], success in the programming industry prompted him to drop his studies and take up video game development full-time.<ref name="homecomputing" />

The following year, he founded the [[software house]] Llamasoft.<ref name="eg61208">{{cite web|last=Purchese|first=Robert |title=Llamasoft's Jeff Minter -Interview|url=http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/llamasofts-jeff-minter-interview|website=Eurogamer|access-date=19 September 2010|date=16 December 2008}}</ref> His first Llamasoft game was a ''[[Defender (1981 video game)|Defender]]'' clone for the VIC-20 called ''Andes Attack'' (US version: ''Aggressor''). In ''Andes Attack'', little llamas advanced upon and attacked the player instead of the spaceships from ''Defender''. As a fan of ''Defender'', Minter would [[Video game remake|remake]] it again as ''Defender 2000''. Through the Brighton-based software house, Salamander Software, Minter had his games written for the Spectrum and other home microcomputers. It was Mr S.A. Tenquist who was responsible for the ZX Spectrum 16K version of ''[[Gridrunner]]''. The conversion was released and published for Christmas 1983 by [[Quicksilva]] Ltd., UK. Jeff Minter's original Commodore version was written in a week<ref>{{cite journal|last=Krouwel|first=Andy|date=January 2005|title=Clearly Minter|url=http://www.sockmonsters.com/ClearlyMinter.html|journal=Retro Gamer|issue=12|access-date=8 June 2018}}</ref> and marked his first commercial success both in the UK and in the US.

Minter went on to develop a number of games for the [[Commodore 64]], [[Atari 8-bit computers]], and [[Atari ST]] which were marketed by word of mouth and [[computer magazine|magazine]] advertisements. These included ''Gridrunner'', ''Abductor'', ''Matrix: Gridrunner 2'', ''Hellgate'', ''[[Hover Bovver]]'', ''[[Attack of the Mutant Camels]]'', ''[[Revenge of the Mutant Camels]]'', ''Return of the Mutant Camels'', ''Laser Zone'', ''Mama Llama'', ''Metagalactic Llamas Battle at the Edge of Time'', ''[[Sheep in Space]]'', ''Voidrunner'', and ''Iridis Alpha''.