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| RobotronNut:
One day, a few years ago, my wife and I were staying at a B&B in Palo Alto, California. We came down to breakfast, and sat down at a table with a middle aged couple. We made some polite conversation, and it came out that I work with computers. They said "Oh, we have a son who lives here and works with computers, too. He writes video games." I said, "Oh really? Which games has he written?" They said, "Oh a few different ones, but his most popular were Defender and Robotron." :o :o :o My jaw dropped to the table. Those had been my two favorite arcade games, but I never paid attention to who'd written them, so I didn't recognize the name, Eugene Jarvis. Then they went on to complain about how he was hardly making any money and was living one step above abject poverty. :dizzy: True story. |
| danny_galaga:
--- Quote from: Xiaou2 on November 01, 2007, 04:00:14 am --- Eugene Jarvis is like Metallica. Starting off as Awesome - with hits like 'One' & 'Master of Puppets'... getting mediocre - with the 'Black Album' and then downright lame - with all else they produced. Of course, just like Metallica, we will always remember the good old days, when they were gods, and produced the best stuff around. So sad to see the decline tho. No more originality, and games being made so easy that any 3yr old could beat them. How does one go from Robotron.... a highly original and insane adrenalin packed game - to clone shooting & driving games? Im sure Ill get hated on for this comment. Hate away. Im drunk now, and thats my excuse :P Happy Halloween --- End quote --- well, thats what happens with creativity. when you are young you are most inspired. if its real genius then it wont last forever. had jimi not choked on his own vomit, would he still be creating stunning tunes? or just doing 'hell freezes over' style tours? |
| telengard:
--- Quote from: TOK on October 31, 2007, 07:08:27 pm ---Also my favorite game designer. Defender and Robotron are my two favorite games, and Williams is by far my favorite 80's game company. It was great to see an interview with Eugene Jarvis a couple years ago and see that he was also a really funny dude with lots of great commentary about the era. Seems like a great guy, and you were lucky to meet him! --- End quote --- Same here, they are my 2 fav games and for the most part Williams made the coolest games IMO. There was a funny story in a book I bought from Eugene, I think the book was called Arcade Fever. I won't spoil the story but it involved betting and a bar across the street. :) ~telengard |
| ahofle:
--- Quote from: TOK on October 31, 2007, 10:00:40 pm ---Thats one of them... There is another one where he talks about making Defender and how terrible it was to work with the Motorala super computer (for the time) they programmed it on. --- End quote --- Here are the interviews (Both Eugene Jarvis and Larry DeMar) broken up into small parts. These came from the Williams Arcade classics CD back in 1994 or so. That was my first experience with emulation and I was totally and completely blown away. The CD had a little intro where you walked into an arcade and there were some game sounds going in the background. That's where I got the idea to make the arcade ambience sounds. Robotron: http://youtube.com/results?search_query=story+of+robotron&search=Search Defender: http://youtube.com/results?search_query=story+of+defender&search=Search These are my favorites: :) http://youtube.com/watch?v=ni_nk8tEx5U http://youtube.com/watch?v=SI9l2PLX3uQ |
| maxmix:
If you have any messages for him.... LMK before tomorrow afternoon (UK Time) I have an email to send him :) maxmix |
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