They call him Pestily’s “dad” but ToastRackTV’s real name is Cliff. He grew up in Melbourne, Australia the oldest son of a scientist and a librarian. He developed a passion for home computers and taught himself to program in BASIC and Z-80 machine code. He and his father turned their love of Dungeons and Dragons Edition 1 into text adventure games for the Sinclair ZX-81 home computer in 1981 when he was in high school. Those games sold internationally and can still be played today in an emulator.