Alain Huyghues-Lacour's first passion was music, and he had already been a member of a rock band for six years when he narrowly failed his A-levels. He gave up his studies at university to turn professional, starting out in small clubs before opening for Stevie Wonder at the Olympia! He went on to become Demis Roussos's secretary, artistic director at EMIproducer and even lyricist for Demis Roussos, Mireille Mathieu and Ennio Morricone...
He discovered video games in 1981 with theAtari VCS 2600as well as arcades while working at Polydor. Leafing through TiltAt the time, Les Forbans was the only specialist magazine in the field, and he realised that journalists wrote well but didn't always master their subject. He gradually tired of the cruel world of the music industry and entrusted his associate with his latest discovery, Les Forbans, shortly before they were to become a huge success! Intrigued by his CV, Jean-Michel Blottièrethe editor-in-chief of Tilt, immediately offered an interview to AHL, who wrote a solution on the spot and replaced a journalist at short notice to write a report on the shoot 'em uppublished in number 49 December 1987.
His maturity and contacts enabled him to make a difference. At a time when the French press swore by the elaborate graphics of microcomputers, he defended consoles and titles that focused on playability. His interest in the industry was also reflected in Tilt's summer specials, Consoles+but he was unhappy with the way the magazine was evolving and joined Joystick in March 1991, for the number 15as editor-in-chief.
There, he founded MEGA Forcethe first magazine dedicated to Sega, and Joypad. In March 1993, he left Joystick to devote himself exclusively to console publications, but a few months later he left the group when it was taken over by Hachette. At the beginning of 1994, he succeeded Jean-Michel Blottière as editor-in-chief of Consoles+, which had meanwhile become a magazine in its own right, where he remained for ten years! He has also directed Nintendo Magazine during the Nintendo 64 period. He retired at a time when the press was going through a serious crisis, but has made a comeback in recent years in Pix'n Love and on Gameblog.