Mark Hooley (Atari/Imagitec) – Interview - Worked on Busby, Raiden & Lots More

[Adriano Arcade]

Mark Hooley (Atari/Imagitec) – Interview - Worked on Busby, Raiden & Lots More

Atari & Imagitec QA Manager Mark Hooley joined Arcade Attack for another fascinating insight as to how both companies worked and produced classics like Raiden and Bubsy.

He discusses his role on many Jag classics and what it was like working for Atari.

https://www.arcadeattack.co.uk/mark-hooley-atari/

[Lost Dragon]

Missed this one until now.

 

Yet another Imagitec Design source who worked on Raiden, yet no mention of a Panther version.

 

Looks like the brother (Martin) is a bigger  bullshitter than I first thought :-)) 

 

Amount of Ex-Imagitec Design sources from the Panther/Jaguar era now,with no Panther experience underlines that (must be into double figures now).

 

 

I actually found yet another old Imagitec Design interview from back in the day.

 

Martin Hooley and "Piglet"  interviewed.. 

 

 

Martin honest enough to admit both Jaguar Dino Dudes and Raiden were simply "good" games, rather than anything special,but when he said Jaguar Raiden was better than the Coin-Op,rather than Imagitec's take on it and he assumed Raiden II would be ported to the Jaguar,so he didn't want to upstage that,by making the original Raiden on Jaguar too amazing, he just lost any remaining shred of credibility.

 

The guy is a total mouthpiece.

 

His brother seems a lot more down to earth by comparison. 

 

Huge thanks to all involved for bringing this one to the community.