Data's Cat Spot@startrek.website to RetroGaming@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoImagine pitching Joust when nobody had heard of it before.startrek.websiteimagemessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up1244arrow-down19
arrow-up1235arrow-down1imageImagine pitching Joust when nobody had heard of it before.startrek.websiteData's Cat Spot@startrek.website to RetroGaming@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square21fedilink
minus-squareHextic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·11 months agoBack 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-up2·11 months agoAtari 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.