Bean (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} beanalby) wrote,@ 2008-03-10 13:33:00 |
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Developing old video games
I'm fascinated by stories from people who developed old games.
I should explain how Atari’s Arcade conversions group worked. Basically, Atari’s marketing folks would negotiate a license to ship GameCorp’s “Foobar Blaster” on a cartridge for the Atari Home Computer System. That was it. That was the entirety of the deal. We got ZERO help from the original developers of the games. No listings, no talking to the engineers, no design documents, nothing. In fact, we had to buy our own copy of the arcade machine and simply get good at the game (which was why I was playing it at the hotel — our copy of the game hadn’t even been delivered yet).
It's amazing how much these people could do with the old, underpowered systems.
