[1] The same award was posthumously renamed in his honour the following year, subsequent to his passing after a three-year long battle against Hodgkin's lymphoma.

[2] McNally's first published video game was a side-scrolling helicopter shooter titled Tiger's Bane, programmed on the Amiga.

[8] McNally is credited for visual contribution to the original DX-Ball by Michael P. Welch (creator of Pocket Tanks), a freeware computer game for the PC first released in 1996.

[12] McNally's family continued to operate Longbow Digital Arts following his passing, primarily focusing on casual games.

[13] The company later announced the development of a historical wargame in 2005, the basic design drafts of which McNally's father had helped to formulate.