Kevin Toms, the owner of Addictive Games , the company who launched the highly successful series of Football Manager games, has been in the games business since the tender age of ten.
Kevin Toms (1984)
As a child, Kevin's hobby was designing new board games for him and his friends to play. Ironically, one game based on soccer was not a success. “The football board game never really worked”, said Kevin, “But the computer is the perfect medium for implementing that type of complex strategy game”. And Football Manager was bom.
Kevin's background is dominated by computers. Before setting up Addictive Games, he worked for three years as a professional programmer for a number of large companies.
He spent over a year perfecting the ZX-81 and TRS-80 versions of Football Manager before launching them simultaneously. He also wrote the Spectrum game. But his main role in the company is now as Development Director, overseeing the production of new software titles.
Kevin is married but has no children. “Except Addictive - that's my little baby”, added Kevin, coyly.
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