Rich's career began directly after leaving college at age 18 in July 1990, after successfully interviewing with Julian 'Jaz' Rignall for a position as Staff Writer on Computer and Video Games magazine at EMAP. Here, he wrote not just for CVG but also in a freelance capacity for Mean Machines magazine, the defining UK games magazine of 1990s. Within 18 months, Rich had moved over to Mean Machines full-time and when the title was split into separate Sega and Nintendo magazines in 1992, Rich became Editor of Mean Machines Sega, aged 21. Subsequent to MMS, Rich worked on the official Sega Magazine followed by the multi-format mag, Maximum, before moving onto the official Sega Saturn Magazine.

In 1999, Rich moved on from EMAP to join Computec Media's expansion into the UK, working as joint Editor on PlayStation World magazine, and creating the firm's DVD video production facility, adding direct-feed quality video to the magazine's written words. In the four years that followed, Rich moved on into an editorial director role at Computec, before the firm was acquired by Future Publishing at the tail-end of 2003, where he left the business and founded Digital Foundry the next month.

Rich has been in the games business for over 30 years, covering seven of the nine console generations - and wants to bring back Mean Machines.

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