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- Hungerford memories linger on. (January 1989)
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- West country sensitivity to the Hungerford tragedy of 18 months ago
- has caused middling software house Hewson to change the name of its
- forthcoming shoot-em-up.
- The firm was to call the game Kalashnikov - also the name of the
- gun used by the killer Michael Ryan. However, one member of the staff
- thought it would be seen as bad taste to launch a game with a name
- even remotely connected to the disaster in which thirteen people died.
- The game is now called Custodians.
- "We're in Abingdon which isn't very far from Hungerford and we
- decided it would be too close to home," offered a Hewson spokesperson.
- "One of the members of the members of staff had strong views on the
- subject and we don't want to offend anyone."
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