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It was partly in Pakeman's Amiga club that the game, which was originally called Total Wormage, started to take shape. "The game got banned from school," said Davidson. "Everyone was crowding around the corner in the art room.
That's when I thought I might be onto something." Even though he was there at the time, Pakeman was not sure of the potential impact of the game. "I wasn't sure if Andy created something, whether he could find a company that would take it on," said Pakeman. "I gather that's exactly what happened, he did find one, eventually.
"I have never played the game. I think I've screenshots of it and I have friends who definitely have played the game. "You mention Worms and they start beaming.
My research tells me it's quite addictive." Davidson signed with the West Yorkshire based company Team 17 to release Worms in November 1995. Its legacy is impressive - it was one of six British games celebrated on a special series of stamps in January 2020. "When worms was on a stamp that's when it really hit home for my mum - she was telling everybody it's been on a Royal Mail stamp." And Davidson's teenage voice still lives on in many people's mobile phones.
"I did the voices of all the angry worms," he said. "I think 'Incoming' is the most famous one because people use it for text messages on their phones. "It's bonkers.
In my head it's still the little game I made for me and my friends."
Source: BBC
