Data's Cat Spot@startrek.website to RetroGaming@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 年前Imagine pitching Joust when nobody had heard of it before.startrek.websiteimagemessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up1255arrow-down110
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minus-squareHextic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·1 年前Back in those days you could solo make it on your lunch break a prototype and go “hey! Game! Make money!” And that was it you’d be giving a 8ball and a weekend to finish it and that was that.
minus-squaremetaStatic@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 年前Atari programmers didn’t get any 8balls they didn’t purchase from their own money and sure as fuck didn’t get any bonuses. Credit and 8balls was Activision.
Back in those days you could solo make it on your lunch break a prototype and go “hey! Game! Make money!” And that was it you’d be giving a 8ball and a weekend to finish it and that was that.
Atari programmers didn’t get any 8balls they didn’t purchase from their own money and sure as fuck didn’t get any bonuses.
Credit and 8balls was Activision.