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I did a lot of drooling over the SSI catalog  I even bought an SSI catalog from eBay last year. I owned Cosmic Balance and maybe a couple more. I also admired the Brøderbund catalog  Also a fan of Electronic Arts during the days of Archon, Seven Cities of Gold, and MULE. 

 

I was born in 1969 and graduated high school in 88 so we are about the same age. 
 

Yes, I’m in the tech industry. I started my career with Microsoft and then moved to Amazon before landing in my current gig three years ago with HBO (now known as WarnerMedia).
 

It’s cool to hear the tech industry has moved to the Midwest. My wife and I sometimes talk about what our lives may look like when we become empty nesters (still 8-10 years out). Moving to a different part of our vast country has come up in our conversations. 
 

How is life in Kansas City? What do you do for a living? Football fan? 

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Yep, I played Alley Cat quite a bit as well as Necromancer, Shamus, Rainbow Walker, and Dimension X. Fort Apocalypse was my very first Synapse game.

 

I'm in the Seattle area. it used to be called the Second Silicon Valley back in the 90s, I think.

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Someone in Synapse marketing department must have been a cat person 😸
 

Thank you for the link to the interview.

 

Had I known that there was this thing called “retro” gaming, I’d have held on to stuff 😭 Oh well. At least I’ve started enjoying all things Atari again. 

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I'm pretty sure I probably send the letter to Synapse and it got forwarded. That's great that you conversed with him recently. I wonder if there are any published interviews with him. I became of fan of Synapse games and I've collected a few this past year.

 

I also reacquired an Atari 800 (and 800XL) recently. Unfortunately, I threw away all my original hardware about 20 years during a move after having kept everything in boxes for years.

 

You'll need to help me with the user icon.

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I came here because of the Blue Max banner. I played that game so much as a kid and I even wrote a letter to Bob Polin with some questions and suggestions. He wrote back; wish I still had that letter.

 

Best of luck to your 8 bit programming endeavors. I also did a bunch of BASIC programming on my 800 as a kid but haven't done much programming in the last 20 years.

[Cleaning out the homebrew folders]

Getting a scanning app and save as PDF. You know, keep just a toe or two in the past.