About Honcho

Real name Robert Eriksson, from Stockholm, Sweden. I took the handle “Honcho” from an Agent X9 comics magazine in 1986 or 1987, before Public Enemies existed. Sweden until university, then France for eight years, London for eighteen, and now back in the South of France.

It began with a ZX81, then a C64, then an Amiga 500, and it never quite stopped. I co-founded Public Enemies on the Amiga in 1988, disappeared from the scene for thirty years, and came back to the C64 in 2020 with an intro called 30 Years. Since then it has been seventy releases and counting, code and pixel art both, trophies with Atlantis and Pretzel Logic, and second place at X'2023 with Mojo.

These days it runs on three tracks. Demos with Pretzel Logic, because that is where I learned everything. A first commercial game with Les Ronrons, forty years after I first wanted to publish one. And arcade boards on the bench, brought back one dead chip at a time, then mapped out IC by IC so the next person who opens one up has the drawings.

Different machines, same job: keeping things running that were supposed to be finished decades ago.