At the age of 16, Ste received a work experience placement, and eventually was hired full-time, at John's employer, Binary Design.
Shortly afterwards, Ste accepted a job at John's new employer, Software Creations, as a designer and eventually as art director for 16-bit and higher consoles such as the Super NES and PlayStation.
In a Retro Gamer interview, Ste Pickford said that his greatest accomplishment was completing Ken Griffey, Jr. Presents Major League Baseball, which he said "was the first time NOA (Nintendo of America) had ever contracted a third-party developer to write a game from scratch, and we did it on time, under budget, and made a great job of the project.
[3] Zed Two remained in existence until 2004, when Warthog Games was forced to sell their entire company to Tiger Telematics.
[6] However, in March 2012, Ste Pickford was nominated for a BAFTA Video Game Award for his and John's development of Magnetic Billiards: Blueprint.