Gregory DG Posted December 3, 2019 Share Posted December 3, 2019 Thought you might be interested in this interview I did these legendary Activision programmers! 8 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supergun Posted December 4, 2019 Share Posted December 4, 2019 Excellent. I really enjoyed watching it. You asked some great questions and it was very interesting. Thanks so much for doing that & posting it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King_Salamon Posted December 4, 2019 Share Posted December 4, 2019 Thanks for posting this! I enjoyed it a lot! Even though I've heard interviews with David Crane in the past, it amazes me that I always seem to learn something new about the ol' 2600! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2600 Posted December 4, 2019 Share Posted December 4, 2019 Really good interview! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
high voltage Posted December 4, 2019 Share Posted December 4, 2019 Aaah, nice. It was awesome to actually read about them in the Activision instructions way back. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rom Hunter Posted December 4, 2019 Share Posted December 4, 2019 (edited) One of the better interviews I've seen in a long time. Well done and many thanks for sharing! Edited December 4, 2019 by Rom Hunter 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason_Atari Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 Great interview ? One question I've always wanted to ask the original 2600 programmers is what they think of the current homebrew games and programmers. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supergun Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 I briefly touched on this subject in one of my conversations with them during the show. The bottom line is that it’s not a one size fits all answer. Since the various programmers tend to use different techniques & limit themselves (or not) in different ways. The recent 32K Mappy & Galaga games for example are indeed amazing games. But the 4K pac man from several years back is also an incredible game as well. Personally, I’d be most interested in seeing a 64K or 128K DPC+ Pitfall 3, programmed by David Crane himself. But I would be equally interested in seeing a 4K Donkey Kong; handled the same way as the 4K Pacman. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+sramirez2008 Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 48 minutes ago, Supergun said: Personally, I’d be most interested in seeing a 64K or 128K DPC+ Pitfall 3, programmed by David Crane himself. This would be neat! Can’t speak for the developers, but as for what they may think of the current crop of homebrews, Mr. Crane does say that “...anything I could fit in the cartridge is fair game”, which leads me to believe that he himself would have eventually extended his DPC chip and there could have been an even better crop of looking/sounding games, BITD. Activision created some really cool and unique games for the 2600. It would have been nice to see how far they could have gone with DPC or their own DPC+ tech, had the market not tanked. @Gregory DG Great interview? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+D Train Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 1 hour ago, Supergun said: Personally, I’d be most interested in seeing a 64K or 128K DPC+ Pitfall 3, programmed by David Crane himself. he tried to crowdfund something but there were no takers. but he was trying to raise a million dollars or something. http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/119478-Jungle-Adventure-Headed-to-Kickstarter-Disaster 47 minutes ago, sramirez2008 said: Activision created some really cool and unique games for the 2600. It would have been nice to see how far they could have gone with DPC or their own DPC+ tech, had the market not tanked. yah, it is interesting to think about how things might have been! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supergun Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 Wow, I didn’t know about that past Kickstarter project. And I hadn’t really thought about it until now, but obviously at some point in the past, Activision was sold. And subsequently everything it was or had went along with it. David Crane (for me) IS and always WILL BE “Activision”. So it never occurred to me that even though he created these “ideas”, he lost control of them years ago. I mean, nobody wants to play “Jungle Adventure 3” starring “explorer x”. We want to be Harry in Pitfall 3. Just like with “Gold Rush”. It should be Keystone Cannonball or Keystone Kapers 2. It’s a downer, for sure. At least Dan is headed in the right direction with “Bon Voyage!”. It’s a cool original title and it has the exclamation point like Kaboom! and Oink! which is very reminiscent of how Activision would have named a game. Plus “TikiVision” also works well and having it on screen fits in with details we loved about their games. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2600 Posted December 6, 2019 Share Posted December 6, 2019 I don't think it's not worth it for these guys to go down the road of licensing from Activision. Crane's budget was not off the mark, but it simply had no chance in a crowdfund. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Nathan Strum Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 Terrific interview! Thanks for sharing it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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