A quick question and answer session, profiling Sensible's head honcho.

He's written some of the greatest Amiga games around. So it's time we got some sense out of the lad from Sensible:
Jon Hare

What do you believe in?

I believe that I am alive and so are other people,
and we should all try not to get on each other's nerves Maybe
then life would be a little more tolerable.

What was the first thing you said today?

Can you turn that tape down please?

King Nebuchadnezzar, because he's got the best name,
or The Brothers Grimm just because they were brilliant, Or Mozart,
maybe.

What's your Number One object of desire?

My wife Irene

What have you got in your pockets?

A handkerchief, a golf tee, several plectrums, some
raffle tickets for a raffle organised by Jools' mum (Another Sensible
programner. Jools That is, not his mum. - Ed) and my wallet.

Which is the most sensible - John Major or a
nice warm vest?

Neither is at all sensible.

If you could be in a computer game, which one
would it be?

I would be in Centipede, for a change of lifestyle.

Is there anything or anyone you'd kill for?

Depends if I'd get caught and put in jail or not.
I'd certainty aid a cause to destroy world religion, but I'm not
sure if I'd actually kill anyone or not.

Would you vote for the Maastricht treaty?

I don't care. It's irrelevant to life.

What's your favourite Baranarana song?

Venus, because the only time in my life I ever went
to the Hippodrome, I went with this American girl I'd met at an
Ozric Tentacles gig, and I went round her house afterwards and
she told me that shed had the idea for Live Aid but couldn't do
it because she wasn't a famous star, so she'd thought-beamed the
idea to Bob Geldof I went with her and this other bloke who fancied
her to the Hippodrome and she wouldn't snog me because I had a
cold and this other guy got off with her and I couldn't dance
to any of the records except Venus because they were all terrible
It was a disaster.

Are video games killing pop music?

We were asked this question at the Amiga Format
Live show and agreed with Jools when he said Pop music killed
itself. Pop got taken over by marketing men producing boring,
bland, unimaginative, artificial, synthesised pap for eight solid
years and then wondered why their empire was crumbling all around
them.

What's your favourite planet in the Solar
System (except Mars)?

Uranus, because I'm an Aquarius and that's my ruling
planet.

What would your autobiography be called?

Hare Today, Jon Tomorrow.

What single question would you most like
to know the answer to?

Why do we need interest in order to control a monetary
system, when all it does is confuse everybody?

What one thing do you think would most improve
the software industry?

Total artistic licence, and a total disregard for
censorship or offending anybody.

What would you like your epitaph to be?

'So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, goodbye."