Category: Interviews
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131: The First Atari 2600 Homebrew Cartridge? Ed Federmeyer And The Story of Sound-X and Edtris
This one was a labor of love of sorts. About 4 weeks ago, I did not even know Ed Federmeyer existed. But after a I did a deep dive into Atari 2600 Action Pack For Windows and found out he had found a way to use it for his own…
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S4:E14: Atari Pac-Man Day 40th Anniversary Documentary
Clocking in at almost 3 hours, this episode is a remastered super-cut of Into The Vertical Blank Season 3, Episode #1, #4 and #6 that cover April 3, 1982: Atari Pac-Man Day and it’s lasting effects on the company. Yep, this one is all about Atari VCS Pac-Man, but so…
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S4:E3: An In-Depth Interview With David Crane, Garry Kitchen, Dan Kitchen from Audacity Games
Last week we caught up with David Crane, Garry Kitchen and Dan Kitchen from Audacity Games to chat about the old Atari days, Activision, Absolute, Skyworks, the tragedy of digital obsolescence, their new venture Audacity games and their spectacular new Atari VCS game, Circus Convoy. See full video version of…
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Chris Crawford’s Famous Dragon Speech and Interview From 2008
Chris Crawford recently highlighted a “cleaned-up” version of his famous, game industry-defining “Dragon Speech” from GDC 1992. In this speech, Chris Crawford explained his dream of of true “interactivity” and how the game industry and he had parted-ways. While he was almost universally rejected at the time, in an…
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Interview With Ralph Baer, Inventor Of Home Video Games (R.I.P.)
Note: Dec. 7. 2014: R.I.P. Ralph Baer, the inventor of video games. This interview was conducted in 2005 for gamerdad.com For more information on Ralph Baer, see his web site. Steve Fulton When did you get the idea to create a home video game system? Ralph Baer: August 31, 1966Steve…
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Freelance Flash Games Interview with Steve and I on the Future of Flash and HTML5
Freelance Flash Games Interview with Steve and I on the Future of Flash and HTML5 Read It Here Thanks, Ryan for the opportunity.
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8bitrocket.com Interviews Johnny Wilson Former Editor Of Computer Gaming World
By Steve Fulton (Note: A Portion of this interview ran on http://www.gamecareerguide.com/ December, 2011) Johnny L. Wilson was the editor of Computer Gaming World magazine for about 10 years, and in that time he saw computers games rise to become the dominant game medium of the 20th century. He is the co-author of…
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My Interview With Johnny Wilson (CGW) Live on GameCareerGuide.com
A few months back I got the urge to catch-up with Johnny Wilson, the long-time editor of Computer Gaming World. I do this from time-to-time. I get nostalgic about old games or magazines, and then attempt to look-up some of the personalities and get them to speak on record about…
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Flash Is Dead? Games Volume Grows And Multi-player Pays Off: An Interview With Mochi Media
Recently we caught-up with Alexander Shen from Mochi Media to ask him about the state of Mochi and viral Flash Games. His responses are truly enlightening. Far from Flash being dead and buried, it appears that both the volume of Flash games, and the success stories of Flash game developers…
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Retro Gaming Round Up Atari Edition Podcast with Ted Dabney Interview
Listen To The Podcast Being self avowed Atari Nerds for more than 33 years now, Steve and I are always game to hear information on the controversial start-up, on-going business, and eventual crash of the original video game giant. In this edition of the Retro Gaming Roundup the team uncovers some interesting…
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SPIL Games Thinks HTML5 Will Overtake Flash by 2012: An Interview
“SPIL GAMES expect that by the end of 2012 at least 50% of all new games to be HTML5.“ -Scott Johnson, SPIL Games SPIL runs some of the biggest game portals on the planet (e.g. gamesgame.com). As far as online web games go (mostly Flash) , their operation is MASSIVE:…
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Atari 7800 Expansion Module + An Interview With Kurt Vendel
Yesterday, Legacy Engineering announced a pre-order for their newest product, The Atari 7800 Expansion Module. Pre-orders receive a 10% discount (for a limited time). The Atari 7800 Expansion Module includes: Built in High Score keeping capability (compatible with approx 20 existing titles and any HSC coded games/programs in the future)…
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8bitsteve Interviews Steven Levy, Author Of The Classic Computer Industry Book: “Hackers”
Steven Levy is one of my heroes. He’s genius author who has the rare ability of making technology subject not only palatable, but down-right fascinating. He has written tons of great books, and written for magazines such as Wired and Newsweek. Steven Levy’s book, Hackers: Heroes Of The Computer Revolution…
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8bitrocket Interviews with Jameson Hsu from Mochi Media
“Many people ask why we put GAME in all caps (in the name Mochi GAME Development fund -ed)and it’s because the fund is ajoint effort between our parent company Shanda Games (stock tickerNASDAQ:GAME) and Mochi Media.” -Jameson Hsu We’ve heard back from a lot of developers about their experiences…
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Steve Woita: An Original Atari 2600 Game Developer Tackles Flash Games, Speaks-Up About Flash And CGE 2010
“ I feel like I’ve got more ideas for new types of games to build now then I did back then because there are so many great games to get inspired from now” – Steve Woita, March 9, 2010 If you know 8bitrocket.com then you know we love Flash games.…
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Video: Mochi Media’s Jameson Hsu Answers Our Question About Shanda And Developer I.P.
<object name=movie width=425 height=344 > Millionaire Tycoon Jameson Hsu From Mochi Media removes his monacle for a bit to talk about the Shanda Buyout And Mochi game intellectual property. We asked Jameson a question about how Shanda will treat developer intellectual property in the Mochi system. This was his response.…
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My Interview with Arnie Katz (Co-Founder Of Electronic Games magazine) Up At Gamastra
My interview with Arnie Katz is now up at Gamasutra. If you don’t know who Arnie Katz might be, here is the intro I wrote for the interview: Arnie Katz was a pioneer of video game journalism. In the late 1970s he, along with Bill Kunkel, started Arcade Alley in…
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Interview with PhotonStorm’s Richard Davey
Interview with PhotonStorm’s Richard Davey Richard Davey has created some excellent games for the freelance Flash portal market in the past year including (but not limited to) Kyobi and Abominaball. Both has been featured in our Hall of Fame Arcade Showcase as Gold Medal winners. The combination of modern game-play,…
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Interview With Simon From Game Jacket
A short interview with Simon from GameJacket was recently posted by FlashGameMontezation Very interesting: Badim: 1k$ Advance – it was good or bad thing? at least in short-term(few months-1 year) Simon: When GameJacket first went live in February ’08, we had no developers and no games and only a small…
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Interview with Retro Shoot Creator, Dave Munsie
Interview with Retro Shoot Creator, Dave Munsie RetroShoot Dave was nice enough to take time from his busy schedule to answer a few questions concerning his latest Flash masterpiece, RetroShoot, and to wax nostalgic on his Atari ST roots.8Bitrocket:You were pretty prolific as an Atari ST Magazine disk game developer,…
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Willy Higinbotham, “Video Game” Pioneer Speaks (sort of)
This was pretty cool. Yesterday I received an email from William Higinbotham’s son, Billy. For those who are not students of ancient video game history, Willy Higinbotham is credited with being one of the first people to create a game that used a screen and could be played interactively via…
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Bill Kunkel (Electronic Games) Interview
Electronic Games Magazine truly was revolutionary. It was the first of it’s kind: a monthly publication dedicated to video games and the video game phenomena. The Magazine started as a series of ‘Arcade Alley’ columns in Video Magazine in the 1980 written by Bill Kunkel and Arnie Katz and championed…
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80′s Rock Heros Find A Place For Their Music: Mike Peters , Mitch Easter (Interview)
With record companies falling apart at the seams, and CD sales in the toilet you would think that 80’s Guitar artists who are still trying to make music would have it worse than anyone else. They were overlooked at the time, history has not been kind to them, and these…
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