Costa Panayi

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Costa Panayi (born 11 October 1957, Stretford, Lancashire, England, UK) was a computer game programmer 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 descent, and studied engineering at the University of Salford. After graduation, he started to work as 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 Gunlaw, the Android series, and Tornado Low Level for the ZX Spectrum.