The Ted Dabney Experience

The Ted Dabney Experience
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The Ted Dabney Experience

The Ted Dabney Experience. Intimate conversations with leading lights from the golden age of video arcade gaming. A podcast project by Richard May, Paul Drury (Retro Gamer magazine) and Tony Temple (author of Missile Commander). Brought to you in association with The American Classic Arcade Museum (US) and Arcade Archive (UK).

  1. TDE EP40 - Atari Project Manager John Ray

    FEB 12

    TDE EP40 - Atari Project Manager John Ray

    John Ray joined Atari Inc in 1977 as a hardware engineer, learning the ropes with 1978’s Fire-Truck, arguably the first truly co-op arcade game and a distinctive arcade presence due in no small part to his analogue circuitry audio. Ray was also involved with the Atari-licensed versions of Namco’s Dig Dug and Xevious, the awesome arcade version of Tetris and — into the 1990s — the hugely popular San Francisco Rush racing series.

  2. This is The Ted Dabney Experience

    08/01/2024

    This is The Ted Dabney Experience

    The Ted Dabney Experience is a podcast project by Richard May, Paul Drury (Retro Gamer magazine) and Tony Temple (author of Missile Commander - A Journey to The Top of an Arcade Classic). We host in-depth conversations with the creative leading lights and supporting cast from the Golden Age of coin-op Video Arcade gaming.

  3. TDE EP39 - Rob Quinn of Stern

    07/31/2024

    TDE EP39 - Rob Quinn of Stern

    Rob Quinn joined Stern just as the company was branching out from it's core pinball business to explore the brave new world of videogames. Rob talks about his involvement with the company's early hit, Berzerk, his experiments with laser disc technology and his personal misgivings about how the company was managed.

  4. TDE EP38 - Atari and Bally Midway Game Designer Mark Pierce

    07/12/2024

    TDE EP38 - Atari and Bally Midway Game Designer Mark Pierce

    Mark Pierce was a game designer at Atari and Bally Midway. We talk to him about the protracted development of Escape From The Planet of The Robot Monsters, the axonometric, somewhat baroque B-movie arcade adventure, and the conversely swift creation of the tile-stacking puzzler classic, KLAX. Pierce also shares some amusing anecdotes about scouting for muscular male models for the visually ground-breaking arcade beat-em-up, Pit Fighter, and provides us with a unique insight into why Atari faltered and ultimately folded in The Noughties.

  5. TDE EP37 - Jersey Jack Pinball Founder Jack Guarnieri

    05/13/2024

    TDE EP37 - Jersey Jack Pinball Founder Jack Guarnieri

    From 1975 to present day, Jack Guarnieri has seen and done it all; from servicing mechanical pinball machines in the dive bars and laundrettes of Seventies New York, bearing first-hand witness to the inflation - and rapid deflation - of the video game bubble of popular lore, running his own operator route during the ‘80s and then to selling video and pinball machines directly to consumers. All of this led him to found one of the most innovative pinball manufacturers, Jersey Jack.

  6. TDE EP36 - Strong Museum Assistant VP Jeremy Saucier

    03/14/2024

    TDE EP36 - Strong Museum Assistant VP Jeremy Saucier

    Jeremy Saucier is Assistant VP at The Strong Museum of Play in Rochester, New York. Jeremy talks to us about the history and evolution of the Strong Museum and its pedagogical remit - from American history and Industrialisation to a focus on play - and gives us a fascinating insight into the day-to-day management of a museum. With a doctoral degree in history and a degree in American Studies, Jeremy was a natural fit for his role at The Strong, with its extensive archive of original material, from concept art and design documents to internal company memos from Video Arcade stalwarts such as Williams, Bally and most notably Atari.

  7. TDE EP35 - Atari Coin-Op Engineer Jeff Bell

    02/07/2024

    TDE EP35 - Atari Coin-Op Engineer 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.

  8. TDE EP34 - Atari Pong Creator Allan Alcorn

    08/08/2023

    TDE EP34 - Atari Pong Creator Allan Alcorn

    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.

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The Ted Dabney Experience. Intimate conversations with leading lights from the golden age of video arcade gaming. A podcast project by Richard May, Paul Drury (Retro Gamer magazine) and Tony Temple (author of Missile Commander). Brought to you in association with The American Classic Arcade Museum (US) and Arcade Archive (UK).

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  • Creator
    The Ted Dabney Experience
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2025
  • Episodes
    46
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © 2021 The Ted Dabney Experience
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