“It was out of our league at that point in time,” he says. A few weeks later he received a letter from Milne’s estate, provisionally offering him the video game rights to Winnie-the-Pooh for a minimum of £50,000. A game featuring Winnie-the-Pooh, Hollis reasoned, could be a lucrative hit. A PC magazine had paid Hollis £40 to publish the source code to one of his Christmas-themed games, which readers could type out and play. To date, Hollis had written only a few games on the BBC Micro in his bedroom: festive-themed clones of popular arcade titles that swapped, say, the Easter bunny for Pac-Man, or Santa Claus for Space Invaders. The teenager wanted to make a video game featuring Milne’s most famous character, the honey-addict bear Winnie-the-Pooh.
I n 1985, when he was 14 years old, the game designer Martin Hollis asked his mother to help him write a letter to the estate of the author AA Milne.
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