AlwaysOnPlanetPatrol Posted September 17, 2019 Share Posted September 17, 2019 Was expecting to see someone mention this before me; this piece came into my daily news feed yesterday: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/09/how-a-basement-hacker-transformed-donkey-kong-for-the-atari-2600/ Pretty interesting piece; curious about the rest of Garry Kitchen and how he ended up at Activision. The book where this excerpt comes is Arcade Perfect; one good review and one bad review on Amazon: https://www.amazon.ca/Arcade-Perfect-Pac-Man-Coin-Op-Classics/dp/1079275541/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Arcade+Perfect&qid=1568682910&s=gateway&sr=8-1 . 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
classicgamer74 Posted September 17, 2019 Share Posted September 17, 2019 (edited) I've always been a fan or his work and his brother's. Edited September 17, 2019 by classicgamer74 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dionoid Posted September 17, 2019 Share Posted September 17, 2019 The brothers Gary, Dan and Steve Kitchen all worked at Activision for some period of time; pretty unique. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlwaysOnPlanetPatrol Posted September 25, 2019 Author Share Posted September 25, 2019 he actually commented to this story (2nd page of comments) and provided a link to this piece: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-coolest-thing-you-have-ever-created-alone-as-a-programmer/answer/Garry-Kitchen?fbclid=IwAR0qGeLtEp5PSqnC7K0NRDqFawtJzNQ8okP5wCtENHXWIJVAbP5ZbM-HGJk Interesting how he states that "Coleco had over 550 products (SKUs) in the market the year that the Atari 2600 Donkey Kong shipped. That single 4K cartridge represented 25% of the company's total revenue. " Considering that the Colecovision system and many of its games were released that year, one single game on the previous generation video game system generated that much money for the corporation. Curious if he got a share of the profit ... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onemoretime Posted September 26, 2019 Share Posted September 26, 2019 Really neat story there. There s been a lot of joy and frustration all over the world due to his programming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2600 Posted September 26, 2019 Share Posted September 26, 2019 (edited) I was just talking to Garry the other day, he visited a local "Billy's Midway" arcade in Hawthorne, NJ, with brother Dan. I've gotten to know Dan a lot recently, he's often at Digital Press Videogames for NAVA. Anyway, both are characters and retain a lot of great ins and out knowledge and memories from the glory days. Both grew up in New Jersey I believe. Edited September 26, 2019 by Greg2600 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mingus Posted September 30, 2019 Share Posted September 30, 2019 On 9/25/2019 at 11:53 PM, Greg2600 said: I was just talking to Garry the other day, he visited a local "Billy's Midway" arcade in Hawthorne, NJ, with brother Dan. I've gotten to know Dan a lot recently, he's often at Digital Press Videogames for NAVA. Anyway, both are characters and retain a lot of great ins and out knowledge and memories from the glory days. Both grew up in New Jersey I believe. That's my local arcade. I wish I had more time to hang out there. I actually was there that day and got to say hello...didn't think to get a picture! -J Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linndrum Posted October 1, 2019 Share Posted October 1, 2019 Two kitchen's in one room 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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