NEW The Ted Dabney Experience Podcast

Hello KLOV.

A new episode of the Ted Dabney Experience is up. An in depth chat with Dr Alan Meades, author of Arcade Britannia. Alan talks with us about the differences between American and British arcades and how the British arcade scene embraced videogames in the mid 70s and beyond.

A slightly different discussion from a British perspective that you will find super interesting.

Dr Alan Meades teaches the undergraduate and post-graduate game design courses at Canterbury Christ Church University and is the author of Arcade Britannia, published by MIT Press. After dedicating so many episodes of the show to the mythic American arcade of the late Seventies and early Eighties (in some ways perhaps more a figment of our collective imagination than we might care to admit) it was wonderful having Alan provide a much wider historical context of the amusement arcade, actually dating back hundreds of years and all via a uniquely British lens.


Listen in here or your usual podcast places.

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We appreciate your ongoing support - more episodes on the way!


Tony
 
Hello citizens of KLOV.

A new episode of The Ted Dabney Experience Podcast is now live, and it's a long one! So long, we had to upload in two parts.

Join us as we interview, in long form, the man who needs no introduction, Eugene Jarvis.

As well as chatting about Robotron, NARC Defender et al, we get some real nuggets of minutiae and dig a little deeper into Eugene's five decades of working in the industry.

Part 1 here

Part 2 here

Or catch us on the usual podcast platforms.

Please spread the word and enjoy!


If you're enjoying our ad-free content, consider supporting the podcast's running costs by buying us a virtual coffee! https://ko-fi.com/tdepodcast
 
Hello citizens of KLOV.

A new episode of The Ted Dabney Experience Podcast is now live, and it's a long one! So long, we had to upload in two parts.

Join us as we interview, in long form, the man who needs no introduction, Eugene Jarvis.

As well as chatting about Robotron, NARC Defender et al, we get some real nuggets of minutiae and dig a little deeper into Eugene's five decades of working in the industry.

Part 1 here

Part 2 here

Or catch us on the usual podcast platforms.

Please spread the word and enjoy!


If you're enjoying our ad-free content, consider supporting the podcast's running costs by buying us a virtual coffee! https://ko-fi.com/tdepodcast
This is one of your best interviews if not thee best yet! 🕹🙂

Best, Mike.
 
Hello citizens of KLOV.

A new episode of The Ted Dabney Experience Podcast is now live, and it's a long one! So long, we had to upload in two parts.

Join us as we interview, in long form, the man who needs no introduction, Eugene Jarvis.

As well as chatting about Robotron, NARC Defender et al, we get some real nuggets of minutiae and dig a little deeper into Eugene's five decades of working in the industry.

Part 1 here

Part 2 here

Or catch us on the usual podcast platforms.

Please spread the word and enjoy!


If you're enjoying our ad-free content, consider supporting the podcast's running costs by buying us a virtual coffee! https://ko-fi.com/tdepodcast
This was great, thanks. Only gripe would be not asking him about the JROK, but that's a quibble at best (spoiler, from other interviews: he likes it).
 
Hello KLOV - we have a new episode of the Ted Dabney Experience Podcast.

For this episode, we sit down with former Atari game designer, Roger Hector. Subjects discussed include: early Atari Coin-Op cabinet and game design, Bushnell, video game storyboards, George Opperman, Warlords, Battlezone, the abandoned Cosmos Atari console, Hot Tubs (of course), Sente and Sega.

Senior corporate executive, serial entrepreneur, automotive designer and fine artist. Roger Hector is not only a successful businessman but a bona fide creative polymath. A long time ago, Roger sharpened his pencils at Atari Inc, working alongside co-founder Nolan Bushnell and creative director George Opperman on a vast range of videogame projects. Hector became R&D manager at Atari, before leaving to co-found his own games company, Videa, with Howard Delman and Ed Rotberg, programmer of Atari's Battlezone.

Check out the episode here or wherever you choose to consume your podcasts.

Thank you gents. More to come!

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Another month, another interview on the Ted Dabney Experience Podcast!

For this episode we speak with none other than Allan Alcorn, Atari employee number three after Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney, and the engineer of Pong, one of the very first video arcade games.

I'd say this is one of the best discussions we've had with a guest so far. Lots of cool stories from early Atari days. Al sets the record straight on a number of topics - OJ Simpson, Ted Dabney, Nolan Bushnell, Pong, hot tubs! - its all here.

Tune in here or click the image below, or browse to wherever you usually listen to your podcasts - yes, we are on Spotify!

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Enjoy!

If you're enjoying our ad-free content, consider supporting the podcast's running costs by buying us a virtual coffee! https://ko-fi.com/tdepodcast
 
Another month, another interview on the Ted Dabney Experience Podcast!

For this episode we speak with none other than Allan Alcorn, Atari employee number three after Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney, and the engineer of Pong, one of the very first video arcade games.

I'd say this is one of the best discussions we've had with a guest so far. Lots of cool stories from early Atari days. Al sets the record straight on a number of topics - OJ Simpson, Ted Dabney, Nolan Bushnell, Pong, hot tubs! - its all here.

Tune in here or click the image below, or browse to wherever you usually listen to your podcasts - yes, we are on Spotify!

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Enjoy!

If you're enjoying our ad-free content, consider supporting the podcast's running costs by buying us a virtual coffee! https://ko-fi.com/tdepodcast
Outstanding interview! 🕹🙂
 
You guys are really on a roll lately.

I had completely forgotten that Al was also one of the original developers of Quicktime. Hell of a legacy.
 
Good evening my KLOV chums.

You may have noticed a lull in new episodes of the Ted Dabney Experience Podcast in recent weeks (months?).

We have no excuses. Well we do, and let me tell you they are fine, watertight excuses, involving lost microphones, an interview that just wasn't to be (no matter how many times we tried), technical issues with the platform we use, general life drama and family holidays.

Oh and Eugene stole our headphones that do the rounds over there in the USA. You're a marked man Jarvis.

Anyway, the good news is a new episode of The Ted Dabney Experience is now up and live for your listening pleasure!

For episode 35, we sit down with Atari's Jeff Bell:

Jeff Bell was a hardware engineer in Atari Inc's coin-op division and officially the longest serving employee of the company; literally the last person to switch off the lights in 2004. Jeff walks us through his formative years learning the basics of electronics at his father's desk, the brotherhood of Atari Inc, suspected mob involvement in the early videogames industry and Nolan Bushnell's Bermuda shorts.

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This was an insightful and detailed chat with literally the last man standing at Atari.

You can listen in wherever you choose to consume your podcasts, or directly on our website here:

https://www.teddabneyexperience.com/episodes/tde-ep35-atari-jeffbell

Thanks for your patience gents, and apologies for the break. Paul, Rich and I appreciate everyone's support and feedback - the calendar is filling up in the coming weeks, so brace yourselves for us getting back to regular output this year!

Cheers!


Tony

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Perfect timing! Just sitting down doing taxes and wishing you all had a fresh one as I'd gotten all caught up recently. Thanks
 
Hah! Cornette can't seem to NOT post something! That dude will be yammering on until he drops. Which should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with him. Great tales though. Looooove the tales of the territory days.


Great episode Tony! That was a good one. Some seriously great nuggets in there. The Bally mob tie, the image of Nolan in a pink piggie outfit...tales of the final raids of the Atari archives...damn good. Thanks
 
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