MILLIONAIRE David Jones, the former Timex worker who used his #3000

redundancy money to set up his own computer games business, yesterday

clinched a multi-million pound deal which will create 42 jobs in Dundee.

Mr Jones, 29, who created the best-selling Lemmings game, has signed a

contract with US multinational IBM to produce four new computer games.

Last year, Mr Jones was described as the Steven Spielberg of the

computer games industry when he won a multi-million pound order from

Nintendo, the Japanese computer corporation.

Mr Jones, a former electronics engineer with Timex, designed his first

computer game in the bedroom of his parents' home and used his #3000

redundancy money from Timex to set up DMA, his company.

His first computer game, Menace, sold 15,000 copies and Lemmings I has

sold more than two million copies.

DMA employs 40 people at the company's base on Dundee's Technology

Park. Mr Jones now intends to expand the workforce by 42 and is to lease

additional factory space.

The new games will be produced in partnership with Bertelsmann Music

Group and will be sold in more than 40 countries.

DMA general manager, Stuart Dell, said: '''We are extremely pleased as

this contract underlines our world-wide stature.

'''We are a Dundee company and always try to recruit locally. The jobs

are for technicians, programmers, artists and musicians. Some jobs will

also go to juniors who will be trained in-house.'

DMA games include Lemmings I and II, Uniracers, Walker and Hired Guns.