Costa Panayi

Costa Panayi is a former computer game programmer active during the 1980s. He founded Vortex Software with Paul Canter, publishing games for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and Amstrad CPC.

He is of Greek Cypriot descent, and studied engineering at the University of Salford. After graduation, he started to work as a mechanical engineer for British Aerospace, when he got into programming games business from his hobby interests.

In 1982, he studied Sinclair BASIC and subsequently formed his company Vortex Software along with Luke Andrews and Mark Haigh-Hutchinson. They wrote a variety of games, including , the Android series, and Tornado Low Level for the ZX Spectrum.

His games achieved critical success; Tornado Low Level and Highway Encounter appeared in the "Your Sinclair official top 100",^[1] for example, and in them he developed original 3D interfaces.

In 1995, he was working as a design consultant for Fisher Price.^[2]

List of games[]

(1981)
Word Mastermind (1981)
(1981)
(1981)
(1982),
(1982), Vortex Software
(1983), Vortex Software
Android One: The Reactor Run (1983), Vortex Software
Android Two (1983), Vortex Software
Tornado Low Level (1984), Vortex Software
Cyclone (1985), Vortex Software
Highway Encounter (1985), Vortex Software
Revolution (1986), U.S. Gold
Deflektor (1987), Gremlin Graphics
Hostile All Terrain Encounter (1989), Gremlin Graphics

References[]

World of Spectrum entry.
Interview from Sinclair User issue 32.

^ "The YS Top 100 Speccy Games Of All Time (Ever!)". Your Sinclair (70): 31. October 1991. Archived from the original on 16 August 2006. Retrieved 4 September 2006.
^ The History of VORTEX Software by Mark Haigh-Hutchinson

External links[]

History of Vortex Software by Mark Haigh-Hutchinson

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[1] "The YS Top 100 Speccy Games Of All Time (Ever!)". Your Sinclair (70): 31. October 1991. Archived from the original on 16 August 2006. Retrieved 4 September 2006.

[2] The History of VORTEX Software by Mark Haigh-Hutchinson

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