Adriano Arcade Posted May 25, 2022 Share Posted May 25, 2022 (edited) We had had so many Atari Jaguar legends on Arcade Attack. From BJ West to Leonard Tramiel and James Hampton. Please enjoy our list of amazing guests below: Podcasts: Joe Cain: Bill Rehbock: James Hampton: Faran Thomason: Text Interview: Leonard Tramiel (Atari/Commodore) - Interview - Arcade Attack Vincent Baillet (Loriciel/Psygnosis) - Interview - Arcade Attack Conrad Barski (FlipOut!) - Interview - Arcade Attack Andrew Burgess (Atari) - Interview - Arcade Attack Carl Forhan (Songbird Productions) - Interview - Arcade Attack Aaron Fothergill (Amiga/Atari) - Interview - Arcade Attack Tal Funke-Bilu (Atari) - Interview - Arcade Attack The Atari Jaguar Game By Game Podcast - Interview - Arcade Attack Johannes Graf (Atari) - Interview - Arcade Attack Lars Hannig (Atari Jaguar Homebrew) - Interview - Arcade Attack Jeffrey Johnson (Wave 1) - Interview - Arcade Attack Dan McNamee (Atari) - Interview - Arcade Attack Phil Nixon (Rage) - Interview - Arcade Attack Mario Perdue (Breakout 2000) - Interview - Arcade Attack Nicolas Persijn (Rotary Controllers/Jaguar Fan) - Arcade Attack Joe Sousa (Atari) - Interview - Arcade Attack Darryl Still (Atari/Kiss Ltd) - Interview - Arcade Attack Faran Thomason (Atari/Nintendo) - Interview - Arcade Attack BJ West (Atari) - Interview - Arcade Attack Francois Bertrand (Atari/SEGA) - Interview - Arcade Attack Stephen Mitchell (Lore/Atari) - Q&A - Arcade Attack Mark Hooley (Atari/Imagitec) - Interview - Arcade Attack Silvio Porretta (Atari/Neversoft) - Interview - Arcade Attack Shaun McClure (Atari) - Interview - Arcade Attack James Hampton (LucasArts/Atari) - Interview - Arcade Attack Mike Mika (Atari) - Interview - Arcade Attack Olivier Nallet (Jaguar supremo/Quantic Dream/EA/Valve) - Interview - Arcade Attack Kristi Louise Herd (Imagitec) - Interview - Arcade Attack Frederic Houde (Ubisoft) - Interview - Arcade Attack Is there anyone missing you'd love me to interview? Thanks everyone, Love Adrian! Edited May 25, 2022 by Adriano Arcade 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirlynxalot Posted June 2, 2022 Share Posted June 2, 2022 How about someone from Telegames with respect to the Jag? I've read about many other businesses and people who have supported the jaguar past the atari years, such as Best Electronics, MyAtari, Songbird and others, but I've never seen the story of Telegames and how/why they acquired the rights to certain Jaguar games, and why they still go through the trouble of periodically doing new runs of Jaguar and lynx games decades after the hardware is unsupported. Most people who do this sort of thing, such as Carl at Songbird, are active in the community here and you know they are big atari fans in general, but I have no idea who the people behind Telegames are and why they do what they do. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biff Burgertime Posted June 2, 2022 Share Posted June 2, 2022 On 5/25/2022 at 8:16 AM, Adriano Arcade said: Is there anyone missing you'd love me to interview? Interview @doctorclu and talk about Bubsy. Seriously! Over the years I've had a few people tell me that I get them excited about things they'd never care about (or even notice) otherwise. It's not even something I put conscious thought or effort into. I just enjoy talking about things I personally enjoy. Sometimes they're deep, profound subjects that shape our very being and the world around us. Other times, it's silly stuff like deep cuts from 25-year-old wrestling c-shows that nobody even watched back then. Spoiler After suffering a blow to the head, poor Barry believed himself to be a professional golfer. His PGA card was "in the mail" he assured the audience, before challenging his would-be wrestling match opponents to a putting challenge instead. When it's 2am and I need a quick laugh, this dumb stuff's a hole-in-one. But I didn't fully understand what people were telling me until I experienced it from the other side. A few years ago I started poking around AtariAge, discovering all the interesting stories, projects, and uhh- fumes- within. It's been an endless supply of niche interests and rabbit holes in general, spanning my many interests as a gamer and general tech nerd. ...then there's shit I never expected to become interested in. Bubsy. I had no idea there was so much to that damn bobcat, enough for a blog 275 entries long spanning 14 years... and counting! I don't even go looking for it either, just every few months it'll seem like all roads lead to Bubsy. For example the last couple things I recently I discovered there was an official Bubsy t-shirt (with the ! on it) back in the day, and yup - he managed to find one. It's genuinely endearing, and fascinating. I'd love to know the what/when/why and how of it all. What got it started, and how it lasted through all these years, and what the future holds. Any holy grail items yet to be obtained? Met any interesting people during this journey? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biff Burgertime Posted June 2, 2022 Share Posted June 2, 2022 Another super-fan I noticed when I first started poking around AA was this guy... Dude (or dudette) loves World Tour Racing. I vaguely recall an external webpage with even more WTR info (not wtr-review.html in that post, it was something else) but it's been too long to recall what/where exactly. I just recall being fascinated by such interest in what appeared to be, an average F1 racing game. Similarly though by the end of that deep dive, I found I had become interested in the game myself. There's talk of a pre-release version of the game with licensed real-life personalities, and a track editor that's "much easier to use than the version in the official release and is very intuitive and quite impressive." How is that possible? I think these things have become all the more mysterious now that we've got so much information at our fingertips, it often feels like all the world's knowledge has been uncovered. YouTube's filled with longplay videos of just about any game you could think of from this era, or so it seems. It takes posts like this to reveal what's really missing. I'd love to see all the possibilities afforded by the track editor in WTR, how it affects the frame rate, etc. That's about all the freeform spam I've got in my right now. In short: as much as I love reading interviews from game developers discussing their experiences back in the day, it can be equally fun to hear from these super-fans that develop such a keen interest in things few others even notice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agradeneu Posted June 2, 2022 Share Posted June 2, 2022 DoctorClu was an industry veteran and developer? Hm, did not know that...;-) But seriously, I am missing interviews with Marc Rosocha and/or Michael Bittner of Eclipse, especially to cast some light on that mythical "texture mapped 30 FPS racing engine". Or Michel Ancel, creative force behind Rayman. Interview with Duranik would be great too. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctorclu Posted June 3, 2022 Share Posted June 3, 2022 20 hours ago, Buffalo Biff Burgertime said: Interview @doctorclu and talk about Bubsy. Seriously! ... ...then there's shit I never expected to become interested in. Bubsy. I had no idea there was so much to that damn bobcat, enough for a blog 275 entries long spanning 14 years... and counting! I don't even go looking for it either, just every few months it'll seem like all roads lead to Bubsy. For example the last couple things I recently I discovered there was an official Bubsy t-shirt (with the ! on it) back in the day, and yup - he managed to find one. Daaaaumm... has it really been 275 entries? LOL! Interview about Bubsy fandom? Would be a blast. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaggingUK Posted June 3, 2022 Share Posted June 3, 2022 I bet Peter at telegames would do an interview about his company - sales@telegames.co.uk - if i remember right Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirlynxalot Posted June 3, 2022 Share Posted June 3, 2022 (edited) Is current telegames the same telegames that published atari 2600 games in the early 1980s? If so, that's a company with some serious staying power, and the owners must be somewhat elderly now if its the same people who have been running it this entire 40 year timespan. Edited June 3, 2022 by sirlynxalot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctorclu Posted June 4, 2022 Share Posted June 4, 2022 15 hours ago, sirlynxalot said: Is current telegames the same telegames that published atari 2600 games in the early 1980s? If so, that's a company with some serious staying power, and the owners must be somewhat elderly now if its the same people who have been running it this entire 40 year timespan. Had to look it up too, but two different companies. Sears Tele-Games 1977-1983? Telegames of the 90s and after. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agradeneu Posted June 5, 2022 Share Posted June 5, 2022 Enjoyed most of your interviews, especially with developers having a track record/history. Great stuff, keep it going! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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