Although early development was focused on the Commodore 64 and VIC-20, the company widened the number of target platforms for their games in the mid 1980s.

In 1990, the company became well known for their releases Super Cars and Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge, ported to the most popular home computer systems of the time.

[2] The Magnetic Fields logo in the Amiga versions of Super Cars I and II is accompanied by a sound sample from Siegfried's Funeral March from Act 3 of Wagner's Götterdämmerung.

[10] It tells the story of the games' troubled development history, and assesses its impact on the Amiga scene at the time, and long after.

Former Magnetic Fields artist, Andrew Morris, agreed for a scan of his original protagonist concept artwork to be included.

However, before publication the character was re-designed as a caveboy known simply as 'Kid' to avoid any legal conflict with SEGA who have always been very protective of their intellectual property.