Wikipedia:Peer review/Stamper brothers/archive1

Stamper brothers

These guys are industry legends, famously reclusive. Would appreciate any leads on potential sources/refs. czar 05:23, 31 May 2017 (UTC)

• Is this useful? https://www.gamestm.co.uk/uncategorised/how-rare-unlocked-the-secrets-of-the-nes/

I had seen this—it's more about Dave & Bob Thomas, but actually had a few extra facts for other articles once I got to the end czar 05:22, 17 July 2017 (UTC)

• Is Tim (b. c. 1959) meant to be Tim's birth year? Because it is incorrect.

("circa 1959" as in year-of-article minus stated-age-of-Tim czar 05:22, 17 July 2017 (UTC))

• Chris Stamper born in October 1958: https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/RB1vOPIsV9NMjNFvooWMyKzRvpU/appointments
• Tim Stamper born in February 1961: https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/TrpYsUcZhxZ_rqGtJ8HT3dU-74c/appointments
• These corrected birth dates also coincide with this article, originally published in Businessweek 1995 which mentions their ages. Tim can't have been born in 1959: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/1995-05-28/killer-instinct-for-hire

Do you have a copy of these two Bloomberg articles? I remember reading them earlier but I can't access them now czar 05:22, 17 July 2017 (UTC)

https://web.archive.org/web/20161015142432/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2006-08-30/a-short-history-of-rarebusinessweek-business-news-stock-market-and-financial-advice, https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:mPuu0-b-EuIJ:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/1995-05-28/killer-instinct-for-hire+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk

• There's no mention of the youngest brother Stephen, who also joined Rare: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/1995-05-28/killer-instinct-for-hire,
• More sources: http://www.crashonline.org.uk/51/ultimate.htm, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2006-08-30/a-short-history-of-rarebusinessweek-business-news-stock-market-and-financial-advice
• Stephen L Kent's book The Ultimate History of Video Games has a bunch of details on the Stampers.

• At age 19, Chris was working at Zilec Electronics, British arcade conversion company.
• Rare was cofounded with Joel Hochberg.
• Chris built a prototype handheld system that could play NES cartridges and demoed it to Nintendo of America prior to the Game Boy.

And plenty more. Here's a scan: https://www.emuparadise.me/magazine-comic-guide-scans/The_Ultimate_History_of_Video_Games/2830

--The1337gamer (talk) 16:25, 2 June 2017 (UTC)

• Kent is not always reliable. For instance, Joel Hochberg was not a co-founder of Rare, but rather of Rare Coin-It, a subsidiary company established to help the Stampers expand internationally. Indrian (talk) 23:48, 9 June 2017 (UTC)

• Thanks! Incorporated all of the above (as much as applied to the Stampers—some was more company history) If you happen to have any more, do send it along czar 05:22, 17 July 2017 (UTC)

Doesn't look like this will be getting any extra attention, and I'm not finding any truly definitive source for the life detail discrepancies between sources mentioned above and in the article... so I'll progress it to GAN now (feel free to comment there). Thanks again for the input czar 19:27, 28 July 2017 (UTC)