As you no doubt gleaned from the clips of his appearances on
CBS Morning News and The Tonight Show, Rawson Stovall was only a
child when he started writing a syndicated newspaper column in
which he reviewed computer games and home video games. The column,
called Vid Kid,...
Chris James worked at Thorn EMI, where he was a programmer and
later a project manager. Later he founded James Software, which
specialized in game conversions to various computer platforms. His
long list of Atari game credits includes Darts, Tank Commander, and
several jigsaw puzzle games such...
Hanan Samara was a programmer at Thorn EMI, where her work
included programming the game Jumbo Jet Pilot. Later she founded
Dalali Software, a company that specialized in converting games to
various computer platforms. There she created the Atari computer
game Jinn...
In my interview with Orson Scott Card, he mentioned that his
son, Geoffrey, helped him review Atari games — thoroughly playing
games, then providing a sort of executive summary for his dad, who
then wrote about the games for Compute! magazine. I thought it
would be fun to get...