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((Infobox person
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| birth_date = ((birth year and age|1964))<ref name="Desert Island">"Desert Island Disks: Nick Pelling". ''[[Retro Gamer]]'' '''26''', pp. 82-85.</ref>
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'''Nick Pelling''' is a [[British people|British]]-born [[computer programmer]] and [[Investigative journalism|investigative writer]]<ref name="PellingPelling2006" /> best known as the creator of the 1984 game ''[[Frak!]]''.<ref name="Desert Island">"Desert Island Disks: Nick Pelling". ''[[Retro Gamer]]'' '''26''', pp. 82-85.</ref>

== Games ==

=== Developed ===

==== As Aardvark Software ====
* ''Arcadians'' (1982) (unofficial version of [[Galaxian]])
* ''Zalaga'' (1983) (unofficial version of [[Galaga]])
* ''[[Frak!]]'' (1984)
* ''[[Firetrack]]'' (1987)
* ''[[Sharkey's 3D Pool]]'' (1989)
* ''[[3D Pocket Pool]]'' (2001)

==== Independently ====
* ''[[Bangkok Knights]]'' (1987)
* ''[[Shinobi (1987 video game)|Shinobi]]'' (1989)
* ''[[Loopz]]'' (1990)
* ''[[Terminator 2: Judgment Day (arcade game)|Terminator 2: Judgment Day]]'' (1993)
* ''[[The Simpsons: Bartman Meets Radioactive Man]]'' (1993)
* ''[[The Pagemaster (video game)|The Pagemaster]]'' (1994)
* ''[[Mortal Kombat II]]'' (1994)
* ''[[Wolverine: Adamantium Rage]]'' (1994)
* ''[[Primal Rage]]'' (1995)
* ''[[Batman Forever (video game)|Batman Forever]]'' (1995)
* ''[[The X-Files Game]]'' (1999)
* ''[[In Cold Blood (video game)|In Cold Blood]]'' (2000)
* ''[[Street Fighter Alpha 3]]'' (2002)
* ''[[Kelly Slater's Pro Surfer]]'' (2002)
* ''[[Championship Manager 5]]'' (2005)
* ''[[Buzz!: The Music Quiz]]'' (2005)
* ''[[Buzz!: The BIG Quiz]]'' (2006)
* ''[[Buzz!: The Mega Quiz]]'' (2007)
* ''[[Buzz!: The Hollywood Quiz]]'' (2007)
* ''[[The Chaos Engine|Soldiers of Fortune]]'' (2013)

=== Ported ===

==== As Aardvark Software ====
* ''[[Duke Nukem 3D]]'' (1997, [[PlayStation (console)|PlayStation]])

==== Independently ====
* ''[[Dandy (video game)|Dandy]]'' (1986, [[Commodore 64]]) in the capacity of '11th hour Software Salvage'
* ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (NES video game)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' (1990, [[Commodore 64]])
* ''[[Battle Master]]'' (1991, [[Sega Genesis]])
* ''[[Wing Commander (video game)|Wing Commander]]'' (1992, [[AmigaOS]])
* ''[[Dangerous Streets]] & [[Wing Commander (video game)|Wing Commander]]'' (1994, [[Amiga CD32]])

== Interests in history ==
Pelling published an article in the British magazine ''[[History Today]]'', supporting a previous attribution of the invention of the telescope to a [[Gerona, Spain|Gerundian]] named [[Joan Roget]] in 1590<ref name="Today">[http://www.historytoday.com/nick-pelling/who-invented-telescope Who Invented the Telescope?]</ref><ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7617426.stm Controversy over telescope origin, news.bbc.co.uk, Tuesday, 16 September 2008]</ref> and published a 2006 book on the [[Voynich manuscript]], claiming it was written by 15th century North Italian architect [[Filarete|Antonio Averlino]] (also known as "Filarete").<ref name="Pelling">((harvnb|Pelling|2006))</ref>

==Books==
* ((cite book |year=2006 |last=Pelling |first=Nicholas John |title=The Curse of the Voynich: The Secret History of the World's Most Mysterious Manuscript |publisher=Compelling Press |isbn=0-9553160-0-6))<ref name="PellingPelling2006">((cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3zUtAAAACAAJ|title=The Curse of the Voynich: The Secret History of the World's Most Mysterious Manuscript|author1=Nicholas John Pelling|author2=Nick Pelling|date=1 January 2006|publisher=Compelling Press|isbn=978-0-9553160-0-5))</ref>

== References ==
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==External links==
*[http://www.nickpelling.com/ Pelling's website]
*[http://ciphermysteries.com/ Pelling's Cipher Mysteries website]

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