It's really is for sure. For historical reasons and more. Thankfully so many guys from those early days are now agreeing to interviews, films, books and documentarys. I'm in my 50s so I was there at the time, but I would like future generations to hear these stories and learn from them as they are so important in our world's history.
HSW is a great guy. After reading his book, I emailed him, to my delight he replied and we shared a really nice, interesting dialogue. I was fascinated. I grew up with the VCS here in England and remember my cousin buying ET and Yars' Revenge. Good times!
@@earx23 It's really good. Quirky to the point of occasionally, amusingly irritating, fascinating, funny, and at times thoughtful. The dude clearly went through a lot with unfair criticism sent his way. ET was not an absolutely awful game and it was not the cause of the US videogame crash.
@@Hologhoul thanks. Ordered it. I've recently read "on the edge" about commodore's history. It was a fascinating read that exposed many details not directly available on forums or Wikipedia. Can't wait to read this one.
It's a real coup for you to be able to interview this man. Wow, it's so great to hear his part of his Atari story in those early days. I must check out the book as well. I was there at the time, but I never had the console back then. I used it at friends houses. I remember being quite critical of the joysticks and the graphics as I was used to Arcade quality, but it was fun all the same. I only had a Pong game on a black and white portable TV pre 1981 at the the time though. So the Atari was definitely something special in a lot of households. The arcade was my only chance to play real games so I'm sure I would have loved one back then until I was given a Speccy 48k in 1982 and I was over the moon. After that the only Atari I ever knew again for a while was in the arcade or when the ST was released years later. Awesome times and memories. Today really does not compare.
Another one! How do you get so many amazing interviews done so fast. Seriously, this is my favorite channel. Astonishingly great. I'd watch an interview with literally anyone that worked on a game.. wouldn't even need to be a "famous" person. But you pull big names. It's incredible
I thought January 11 1981 was his first day at Atari (and it changed his life forever 🙂). HSW wasn't responsible for Atari going bust. One game couldn't do that. IMO it's decent in competition with other VCS games, most have aged very poorly. Giving the time constraint it's an unbelievable feat. Why they didn't just do a sprite swap with a game that was ready for release is beyond me though.
I enjoyed playing ET as a kid. I prefered the games you could do more exploring in. Great interview.
Thank you for doing these interviews. It's important that this information is available.
It's really is for sure. For historical reasons and more. Thankfully so many guys from those early days are now agreeing to interviews, films, books and documentarys. I'm in my 50s so I was there at the time, but I would like future generations to hear these stories and learn from them as they are so important in our world's history.
HSW is a great guy. After reading his book, I emailed him, to my delight he replied and we shared a really nice, interesting dialogue. I was fascinated. I grew up with the VCS here in England and remember my cousin buying ET and Yars' Revenge. Good times!
Thanks for sharing!
I need to read this book
@@earx23 It's really good. Quirky to the point of occasionally, amusingly irritating, fascinating, funny, and at times thoughtful. The dude clearly went through a lot with unfair criticism sent his way. ET was not an absolutely awful game and it was not the cause of the US videogame crash.
@@Hologhoul thanks. Ordered it. I've recently read "on the edge" about commodore's history. It was a fascinating read that exposed many details not directly available on forums or Wikipedia. Can't wait to read this one.
@@earx23 That sounds great, I watched a film about Commodore recently, quite a story for sure. Enjoy!
It's a real coup for you to be able to interview this man. Wow, it's so great to hear his part of his Atari story in those early days. I must check out the book as well. I was there at the time, but I never had the console back then. I used it at friends houses. I remember being quite critical of the joysticks and the graphics as I was used to Arcade quality, but it was fun all the same. I only had a Pong game on a black and white portable TV pre 1981 at the the time though. So the Atari was definitely something special in a lot of households. The arcade was my only chance to play real games so I'm sure I would have loved one back then until I was given a Speccy 48k in 1982 and I was over the moon. After that the only Atari I ever knew again for a while was in the arcade or when the ST was released years later. Awesome times and memories. Today really does not compare.
Another one! How do you get so many amazing interviews done so fast. Seriously, this is my favorite channel. Astonishingly great.
I'd watch an interview with literally anyone that worked on a game.. wouldn't even need to be a "famous" person. But you pull big names. It's incredible
Thank you my friend. So happy you love the interviews.
this dude sounds awesome
Because he sounds like the dude
I thought January 11 1981 was his first day at Atari (and it changed his life forever 🙂). HSW wasn't responsible for Atari going bust. One game couldn't do that.
IMO it's decent in competition with other VCS games, most have aged very poorly. Giving the time constraint it's an unbelievable feat. Why they didn't just do a sprite swap with a game that was ready for release is beyond me though.
I'm listening to the voice... Are you sure that that's not Steven Spielberg!
Very good! 😂