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Hello all - my next In the Chair interviewee was right in the thick of it in the Golden Age of Arcades (TM), working at Atari, setting up the videogame division at Gottlieb and becoming President of Jaleco, which meant close links with Nintendo. Below is a mini bio (in Howie's own words) and some of...

Thanks for the kind words though I also feel a right t***. I stupidly thought that first comment was saying I'd done a good job as 'the author'. I felt all warm inside at receiving unsolicited praise. But of course he actually meant Matthew Smith. I am duly chastised. Vanity, vanity, all is vanity....

I really enjoyed it. When I interviewed the creator of Space Taxi, he gave me notes on all the levels. Unfortunately only a couple of those comments ended up in the mag... I love that game. And wish we'd had a guided tour of it! I suppose not as many people know of it's charms as some other 8-bit m...

Yeah, I can understand that Nikolai - thanks for at least reading some of it! It helps if you've always wanted to know just why Matthew put some weird creature in some odd location and where the idea came from... and for many of us who grew up with MM/JSW, as Antiriad notes, it really does. Ah, nost...

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Fri Dec 13, 2019 4:24 pm

get out of my HEEEEEEEEAD DRS!!!

Yeah it is a bit weird in here. And crowded. Really crowded...

Cheers fella and a happy xmas!

Mr Jenzie - I didn't see this before the interview... but amazingly i did ask both those questions in the course of my 2 hour chat with Jeff! Great minds and all that. so you'll be in the mag.

Cheers you 3 - i really appreciate you taking the time to post questions. See you next time.

Thanks for the kind words though I also feel a right t***. I stupidly thought that first comment was saying I'd done a good job as 'the author'. I felt all warm inside at receiving unsolicited praise. But of course he actually meant Matthew Smith. I am duly chastised. Vanity, vanity, all is vanity. ...

Cheers Merman - you never let me down!

I'm talking to Jeff tomorrow (Thursday) 9pm so if anyone wants a question asking, please post it here before then. Ta!

Well what a kind thing to say. Cheers mate. And for those wondering, I do not know who smccd is. If it's you Dad, thanks but we've talked about this before... Also, I too like the guided tour/director's commentary format - for 8-bit games which often had specific screens, I think it works well - I'v...

He did do cabinet art for quite a few coin-ops - and pinball tables too. Ta for question - i shall duly pose it!

Hello all - my next desert island castaway is best known for being the artist who created Q*Bert, but his artistic talents graced many Gottlieb arcade games in the early 80s and after (see list below). If you have any questions for Jeff, post them here and I'll get your name in the mag. I'm talking ...

DRS your interview with Mathew Smith was superb and I can very much related to Mathew. I think a lot of people have rose tinted glasses to bedroom programmers whilst Matt says it’s not really as good as people think. Chasing publishers to get payed. One of the best issues I read In a long time. I t...

The comments by Ely on interviewing Matt Smith about a difficult time in his life are fair, though. As you can perhaps detect in the opening of that piece, I am honest at how uncomfortable I felt at times. I have known Matt since 2004 and been up to see him in Liverpool 7 times since then, sometime...

Rory your powers of recall are impressive! Ta. And nice work on this issue of RG - as always

Ah it is lovely reading this thread - it is indeed heartening to hear the congratulations for reaching 200 and the positive feedback on this epic issue. Makes me feel very proud being a part of the mag since issue 5. Cheers. Yet, it is the way of the human that of course I am focusing on the negativ...