The Dundee line of the subway map begins in 1982 with the Spectrum.

The next stop is video game Menace, written by Dave Jones, the grandfather of Dundee gaming.

He was the man behind Lemmings, the first mega-successful computer game to come out of the city.

It was released in 1991 and became so legendary in Dundee that it has its own statue.

Van der Kuyl says Lemmings “just exploded" for Dave Jones and his DMA Design.

He says: “They were still quite a cottage industry but suddenly, with Lemmings, they opened a headquarters on the technology park and started hiring people like crazy.

“Dave was driving around town in a Ferrari.”

Later, Jones would go on to develop one of the most successful games ever, Grand Theft Auto.

But his career began as one of those whizz kids with a Spectrum, who also happened to work at Timex.

“Dave Jones was one of the young technicians brought in as a debug technician for the ZX Spectrum,” says Charlie Malone.

Malone was a technician at Timex in the 1980s and is now a lecturer at Abertay University.

He says: “Dave very quickly established himself as being different. He was a geeky guy.

“He was way ahead of anyone else in terms of his potential and he went to college and then went on to become one of the greatest games developers of that era.”

For Jones, and for many others, it was only later that they could see a link between Timex and the games industry.

Jones and van der Kuyl desperately needed graduates with the new skills to work in the rapidly changing computer games market.

In 1997, their lobbying led to Dundee's Abertay University becoming the first in the world to offer degrees in computer gaming.

Despite only having had university status for three years, Abertay was soon attracting students with entrance qualifications that would have got them in to Cambridge.

“Kids were coming out of school and saying 'this is amazing and it's the only place in the world you can do it',” says van der Kuyl.