The Video Game Newsroom Time Machine is a weekly retro gaming podcast in which we travel back in time to see what was making headlines 40, 30, and 20 years ago in the arcade, video game, and computer gaming business and interview industry veterans.
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Mar 10, 2022
Jerry Jewell was the cofounder of Sirius Software, one of the
great early developers of games for the Apple II. Together with
luminaries like Nasir Gebelli, Sirius made Steve Wozniak's brain
child the go-to computer for entertainment in the early 80s.
Find out how the business worked back then, the comradery between
competitors in the industry, and how the video game crash took them
down.
Links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ComputerLand
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasir_Gebelli
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirius_Software
https://www.mobygames.com/company/sirius-software-inc
https://www.mobygames.com/game/space-eggs
https://www.mobygames.com/company/northwest-synergistic-software
https://closinglogosgroup.miraheze.org/wiki/Fox_Video_Games
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kmart
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softalk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Computing_(magazine)
https://www.mobygames.com/company/fox-video-games-inc
http://www.skulltronix.com/