Private company

Apex Computer Productions

Video game developer

Apex Computer Productions was the brothers John Rowlands and Steve Rowlands, British based game designers and programmers on the Commodore 64 in the late 1980s and early 1990s. They programmed in pure assembly language and their earliest commercial release was Cyberdyne Warrior, a platform shooter, for Hewson in 1989. Soon after, they entered a relationship with Thalamus, the game publishing arm of Newsfield, who published their next game, Retrograde.2 It is headquartered in United Kingdom.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

  • Industryvideo game industry1
  • HeadquartersUnited Kingdom1

Apex Computer Productions was the brothers John Rowlands and Steve Rowlands, British based game designers and programmers on the Commodore 64 in the late 1980s and early 1990s.2

Products and brands

Cyberdyne Warrior (Hewson, 1989)

Retrograde (Thalamus Ltd, 1989)

Creatures (Thalamus Ltd, 1990)

Creatures II: Torture Trouble (Thalamus Ltd, 1992)

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Mayhem in Monsterland (Apex, 1993)

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