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[settingsons]

I came across some old episodes of a micro-computer themed TV Programme call 'The Computer Chronicles' which I haven't heard of before.

This epiosde has an interesting interview and demo of Bill Budges Pinball Construction set with the man himself and the then president of Electronic Arts.

He appears around the 13 min mark:


He was obviously an innovator and one of the first to allow the user to build their own games using construction set.

The programme has some other items of interest including an interview with Chris 'Eastern Front' Crawford from Atari.

It's worth watching for the hi-tech title sequence/theme music alone

Edited by settingsons, 14 October 2012 - 12:07 PM.

[faralos]

Wow 1984 when video games were just coming onto the market and pinball was still king in the arcades!
bet the forecast was different back then for video and pinball! I'll give it a good listen to later
thanks!

[hgpinball]

Quite interesting to see Gary Kildall in this feature! He was not at home when IBM representatives visited his house to negotiate about buying his operating system for their IBM PC-to-be. So they visited Bill Gates instead - the rest is history...