Retro Tea Breaks

Jordan Mechner is a pioneering game developer, writer, artist, director and more. Today I'm in conversation with the creative force behind Karateka, Prince of Persia, The Last Express and many more projects including his latest book, Replay, Memoirs of an Uprooted Family. Find out more at JordanMechner.com

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Meet Jordan Mechner 00:00

Young Jordan Mechner 06:30

Karateka 15:29

Prince of Persia 50:45

The Last Express 1:04:06

A Fresh Prince 1:20:35

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Rebecca Heineman is co-founder of Interplay, a video game champion and game development pioneer, today we hear her story.

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Games Master was the biggest video games TV show in the UK in the '90s and Dominik was centre stage as the presenter. With over 3m peak viewers this was the show we all looked forward to. Dominik shares with us today his background, rise to stardom, behind the scenes stories and troubles along the way.

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An unreleased Amiga game appeared in The Cave recently thanks to a visit from Glenn Broadway. It wasn't long before we got chatting and I realised that Glenn would be a perfect Tea Break guest, and boy does he have an interesting past. From interactive movies to unreleased Dreamcast games and the world of mobile gaming Glenn has seen it all unfold at the coalface of game design. 

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00:20 Before the industry

07:20 First Job at Images

12:06 An unreleased Amiga game

21:23 Moving to SCI and Lawnmower Man

36:30 Kingdom 'O Magic for SCI

40:10 Working on SWIV3D

47:33 Setting up IO Productions

48:35 Stampede! Unreleased Dreamcast game

1:03:47 Nokia mobile gaming

1:08:42 Teaching Computer Science

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Ken and Roberta Williams created Sierra On-Line in 1979 with their first graphical adventure game for the Apple II compute "Mystery House". From these humble beginnings the world opened up for them and with games such as Police Quest, Space Quest, Leisure Suit Larry and Kings Quest, Sierra rocketed to the top of the charts and became one of the biggest game publishers in the world.

Today we meet Ken and discuss those early days, and find out a little more about his history and his exciting new game.

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00:45 How Ken Williams got into computers

02:37 Ken Williams ambitions as a young man

05:13 Was Ken Williams a geek like us

07:16 Did Ken Williams play games?

08:08 On Ken and Roberta's Apple II

09:14 The inspiration for Mystery House

13:14 Did Ken want to sell more serious software?

14:02 Does Ken have an Apple I?

18:13 The Videogame crash

20:35 Offering royalities to designers

22:50 "Ken Sent Me" & Leisure Suit Larry 4

25:30 Sierra's deal with IBM for Kings Quest

30:52 What is Ken Williams favourite Kings Quest

33:52 Ken Williams on the quality of his big box games

37:10 What is the perfect Sierra game?

38:36 What is it like working with Disney?

40:42 How do you stay ahead in the games industry?

45:33 What Quest games did Sierra never release?

47:45 The demise of Sierra

53:45 Ken Williams on his new game

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Game developers don't come much more legendary than Brenda and John Romero. From Wizardry to Doom, Commander Keen to Quake, between them they have over 80 years of experience in the video game industry. Today they share their memories of what attracted them to it, how they got their first break and a whole lot more. Pour yourself a cuppa and enjoy the chat.

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Richard Kay is a founder of Software Creations, one of the most innovative British game studios of the '80s and '90s. Famous for conversions such as Bubble Bobble and Bionic Commando from Taito, Capcom and other big name arcade machine creators of the era Richard and his team created the games others said weren't possible. Early success forged a partnership with Nintendo and a series of firsts for a games company outside of Japan in their relations with the big N.

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Trip Hawkins is a video game pioneer whose experience dates back to the very birth of the industry. An employee of Apple Computers reporting to Steve Jobs with a big idea for the video games industry, but not until the time was right to strike. And when he did he created one of the most valuable and well recognised game publishers on the planet. In our chat today we cover EA, The 3DO Company, the competition and what makes up the man with the vision and drive to create it all.

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Mark Ferrari shares his life as an artist, an author and so much more in our Tea Break today. A fascinating tale from the inside of Lucasfilm Games.

Marks Website: https://markferrari.com

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David Pleasance shares his story of the fall of Commodore from his position on the inside of the company, soon to be published in his new book "From Vultures to Vampires". https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/469255657/from-vultures-to-vampires

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