The German version of this short article was posted on 19 December 2020, Tim Follin’s 50th birthday. (Oh, in case you’re wondering: in the beginning of Vintrospektiv, I was looking for regular things to post and so I researched random dates to do with video games, like publication dates, birthdays, and so on. I’ve written […]
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Ok, once again two months have passed since my last post, so as I indicated, I’ll translate another of my old short articles into English for a wider audience. I originally posted the German version of this on 11 December 2020, which was Bob Bates’s 67th birthday (according to Wikipedia). Here, then, is the translation. […]
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After transfering all my articles from Medium to this website, a few over here still remain untranslated, among them one about Mark Sheeky. Considering how nice Mark was about the original article, including giving his permission to use some of his artworks and his photo, it’s the least I can do to finally provide a […]
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My last “shorts” video focused on M.U.L.E. by Ozark Softscape on the Atari 8-bit family. The mind behind that game was Danielle Bunten Berry, an outstandingly innovative game designer who pioneered a minimal design with well-constructed game mechanics. Berry, who is often credited as Dani Bunten or Dan Bunten, started her career in 1978 with […]
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(Update: there is now also an English version of this article available.) Der Autor, Grafiker und Komponist des Spiels Rage aus meinem letzten Shorts-Video blickt auf eine vielseitige Karriere zurück wie wenige Kreative. Als Jugendlicher in Mittelengland programmierte er erste Spiele in BASIC auf dem Dragon 32 und dem C-64. Schließlich begann er auf dem […]
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(Update: there is now also an English version of this article available.) Als Späteinsteiger in die Computerspielemusik (erstes Spectrum-Spiel Subterranean Stryker 1985, erstes C-64-Spiel Agent X II 1987) experimentierte Tim Follin viel mit den Möglichkeiten der Soundchips, mit denen er arbeitete, und brachte Jazz- und Rock-Elemente in eine ansonsten von klassischer und früher elektronischer Musik geprägte Szene ein. […]
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(Update: there is now also an English version of this article available.) Schon bevor sein Name mit „Legend“ in Verbindung gebracht wurde, war Bob Bates legendär: Er schrieb für Infocom unter dem Namen „Challenge, Inc.“ zuerst 1987 das letzte Textadventure ohne Grafik (dafür auf einigen Systemen mit Sound), Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels, und dann 1989 […]
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