David Jones

Who is David Jones?

David Jones is a former freelance computer game programmer who was prolific in the mid-to-late 1980s. He is best known for the creation of the cult computer game character Magic Knight in his 1985 game Finders Keepers for the Mastertronic budget label and released on the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, MSX and Commodore 64.

Finders Keepers spawned three cult sequels: Spellbound, Knight Tyme and Stormbringer.

The in-game instructions for Finders Keepers, and the printed instructions for Knight Tyme and Stormbringer, refer to the character of Magic Knight as 'he'. However, in a feature on the Magic Knight games in issue 27 of Retro Gamer magazine, David Jones states that Magic Knight "was always female" and that if he had written another Magic Knight game, this would have been "the big reveal at the end".