The Ted Dabney Experience Podcast
1) TDE EP42 - Atari UK Cofounder Alistair Crooks
Despite lacking any knowledge whatsoever of the amusement industry, Kellogs sales manager Alistair Crooks and eccentric former RAF airman Phil Smith convinced a young Nolan Bushnell that they were the...Show More
2) TDE EP41 - GCC cofounder & Ms. Pac-Man co-creator Doug Macrae
Doug Macrae founded General Computer Corporation in 1981 with Kevin Curran whilst still an MIT student and would go on to employ many other MIT students, including previous guests Steve Golson and Jon...Show More
3) 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 t...Show More
4) 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-d...Show More
5) 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,...Show More
6) TDE EP38 - Atari and Bally Midway Game Designer Mark Pearce
Mark Pearce 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 ar...Show More
7) TDE EP37 - Jersey Jack Pinball CEO 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 ...Show More
8) 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 his...Show More
9) TDE EP35 - Atari Inc 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 ...Show More
10) 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.