We are talking to tech inventors, VIPs and inventors who formed the world as we know it today!
Frank Erstling is the founder and head of the leading German print magazine for retro gaming and retro computing - RETURN. Enjoy our talk with him - this time in English!
Frank is not only the founder and publisher of RETURN, Germany's most popular print magazine for retro gaming and computing since 2009, but also a passionate collector of games, consoles and homecomputers. German version of this interview, English coming!
Andreas is an acclaimed videogame journalist working for the german public sector television network ZDF and you also might know him from 3sat Kulturzeit.
a talk with Andreas Escher (Rainbow Arts): Working since the 80s in the German game industry, he's a pioneering graphic artist responsible for C64 gems like Katakis or Turrican and many more on various home computers and consoles of that era. Get ready
It's time for a look into our archives. Check out this talk with Tommy Tallarico : He is not only one of the most prolific game music composers of all time, but also CEO of @Intellivision and a celebrated live musician with VideoGamesLive . Enjoy!
John Kellas was a consultant and director for many British software companies in the 80s and 90s like Mastertronic, GT Interactive or Rushware. In this interview, he talks about his career in the German subsidiaries of these companies. Learn more about so
A historic interview with Gary Penn, a video games industry veteran and former games reviewer for Zzap!64.Fun fact:The first Grand Theft Auto game would have been ended up cancelled without his efforts as a creative director at DMA Design (later Rockstar)
Stello Doussis is a veteran graphic designer, coder and composer, mostly recognized for for the cool soundtrack of Game Boy Color games such as "Happy Hippo" for the Kinder Surprise brand! here, he talks about how he started with is love for game music!
Rudolf is a video game composer veteran who worked also for Rainbow Arts and later Factor 5 and has been known for working on games like the Star Wars franchise, the strategy puzzler Logical or converting the Money Island soundtrack from the PC to Amiga
Randy farmer is a pioneer in online gaming, he created the first MMOPRG in 1986 aka Habitat while he worked for Lucasfilm Games (Later Lucas Arts), he has worked for Yahoo, Google, worked on Second Life and a lot more. Join us as we go through the history
Holger tells us about his time publishing and writing books and software for the Amiga under Data Becker and later on other publishing houses. He talks a lot about the atmospheres and little stories and background about the times of computer books
pioneering in television with computer shows aimed towards the youth with German computer shows "Computer Corner" & "Technik-2000" which she did back in the 80s and 90s with journalist Klaus Moeller) in which she brought the home computers closer and more
pioneering in television with computer shows aimed towards the youth with German computer shows "Computer Corner" & "Technik-2000" which she did back in the 80s and 90s with journalist Klaus Moeller) in which she brought the home computers closer and more
pioneering in television with computer shows aimed towards the youth with German computer shows "Computer Corner" & "Technik-2000" which she did back in the 80s and 90s with journalist Klaus Moeller) in which she brought the home computers closer and more
pioneering in television with computer shows aimed towards the youth with German computer shows "Computer Corner" & "Technik-2000" which she did back in the 80s and 90s with journalist Klaus Moeller) in which she brought the home computers closer and more>
Swiss Amiga developer, who is known for many creations and music contributions to various known Amiga games!
Swiss Amiga developer, who is known for many creations and music contributions to various known Amiga games!
Wolfgang Back is a computer journalist pioneer since the first hour and of the birth of computers.
Wolfgang Back is a computer journalist pioneer since the first hour and of the birth of computers.
Paco Portalo is a computer games pioneer from Spain when he and his friends create the computer game "Bugaboo (The Flea)" in 1983 under "Indescomp". Originally done for the ZX Spectrum as this one was just released in UK.Quicksilva publishded the game.
Paco Portalo is a computer games pioneer from Spain when he and his friends create the computer game "Bugaboo (The Flea)" in 1983 under "Indescomp". Originally done for the ZX Spectrum as this one was just released in UK.Quicksilva publishded the game.
John Mack is the designer and graphic artist of the 1984 edutainment program "Operation:Frog" by Scholastic. It was the first of its kind in which you were tasked to either dissect or put together a frog. Learn all about this program and how it came to be
John Mack is the designer and graphic artist of the 1984 edutainment program "Operation:Frog" by Scholastic. It was the first of its kind in which you were tasked to either dissect or put together a frog. Learn all about this program and how it came to be
we talk about how it was to work for Data Becker. A lot of stories to be heard of how it was to work for one of the biggest publishers in Germany and the first for computer books. We also talk about the expansion of Data Becker abroad like e.g. in UK
we talk about how it was to work for Data Becker. A lot of stories to be heard of how it was to work for one of the biggest publishers in Germany and the first for computer books. We also talk about the expansion of Data Becker abroad like e.g. in UK
John Romero is one of the most famous computer game designers, most known for his 3D Ego shooters like Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, Quake, and the jump'n'run series "Commander Keen". In this interview he talks about his history in the video game industry
John Romero is one of the most famous computer game designers, most known for his 3D Ego shooters like Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, Quake, and the jump'n'run series "Commander Keen". In this interview he talks about his history in the video game industry
he is one of the early C64 programmers programming games like Space Taxi and Solo Flight 2nd Edition in the early 80s. Space Taxi especially celebrating a huge recognition by its unique gameplay and accurate physics at that time as well as digit. speech.
he is one of the early C64 programmers programming games like Space Taxi and Solo Flight 2nd Edition in the early 80s. Space Taxi especially celebrating a huge recognition by its unique gameplay and accurate physics at that time as well as digit. speech.
Peter "Franky" Smets from Rastermania.be is an arcade collector and dealer through and through. In his talk with Joerg Droege from Sceneworld.org he talks about his experiences and WTF experiences on his tours through the warehouses of Europe.
Peter "Franky" Smets from Rastermania.be is an arcade collector and dealer through and through. In his talk with Joerg Droege from Sceneworld.org he talks about his experiences and WTF experiences on his tours through the warehouses of Europe.
Mike Clarke is a famous composer who former worked for Psygnosis. Among his most known works are the musics for Last Ninja 2 on the Amiga or e.g. Lemmings 2 on the SNES. He speaks about his experience of doing "a little bit of everything" as a composer
Mike Clarke is a famous composer who former worked for Psygnosis. Among his most known works are the musics for Last Ninja 2 on the Amiga or e.g. Lemmings 2 on the SNES. He speaks about his experience of doing "a little bit of everything" as a composer
We talk to Christian Spanik & Hannes Ruegheimer about pioneering in the journalistic IT field. This time talking about user courses and Hannes imself and his involvement.
We talk to Christian Spanik & Hannes Ruegheimer about pioneering in the journalistic IT field. This time talking about user courses and Hannes imself and his involvement.
john Cioffi is the inventor of the DSL technology, he and his team invented what lead to broadband internet all over the world. He talks about the big challenge of getting signals and so high bandwidth over the telephone copper wire.
john Cioffi is the inventor of the DSL technology, he and his team invented what lead to broadband internet all over the world. He talks about the big challenge of getting signals and so high bandwidth over the telephone copper wire.
How it was to pioneer in German web.TV. We talk to Christian Spanik about pioneering in web TV (Chip.TV, Sony Vaio.TV, etc) in Germany's 90s
How it was to pioneer in German web.TV. We talk to Christian Spanik about pioneering in web TV (Chip.TV, Sony Vaio.TV, etc) in Germany's 90s
So for everybody who missed our live broadcast with WIFI modem inventor and the coder of NetRacer, and Vortex 2: This is a recorded version of it
So for everybody who missed our live broadcast with WIFI modem inventor and the coder of NetRacer, and Vortex 2: This is a recorded version of it
How he made the jump from writing books to write scripts for IT TV shows. Here he talks about his experience with scripting TV shows that talk about computers, not an easy task at a time where this genre was still quite uncommon on TV!
How he made the jump from writing books to write scripts for IT TV shows. Here he talks about his experience with scripting TV shows that talk about computers, not an easy task at a time where this genre was still quite uncommon on TV!
Christian Spanik Interview for Scene World Magazine - Part 1 - How I got into journalism and writing books This is the first part of the new interview series in which the German TV journalist dinosaur talks about this adventure and way and experiences
Christian Spanik Interview for Scene World Magazine - Part 1 - How I got into journalism and writing books This is the first part of the new interview series in which the German TV journalist dinosaur talks about this adventure and way and experiences
In his German version of the interview, Wolfgang Back talks about all his history of starting as a journalist and how be became a pioneer and the known journalistic figure that he is nowadays.
In his German version of the interview, Wolfgang Back talks about all his history of starting as a journalist and how be became a pioneer and the known journalistic figure that he is nowadays.
John Chowning is the pioneer in FM synthesis, which he discovered as a musician by ear
John Chowning is the pioneer in FM synthesis, which he discovered as a musician by ear
Ever wondered who this voice is you hear in the speech of "Ghostbusters" for the C64 and Atari? Who invented speech synthesis and speech recognition? Forrest Mozer did! In our interview with him he talks about his invention and the story behind it!
Ever wondered who this voice is you hear in the speech of "Ghostbusters" for the C64 and Atari? Who invented speech synthesis and speech recognition? Forrest Mozer did! In our interview with him he talks about his invention and the story behind it!
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