Player/Missile Podcast¶
1979: STAR RAIDERS
01:05:40 30.1 MB Production date: 08/03/14
Welcome to 1979! Episode 1 includes a brief summary of the technical specifications of the Atari 400 & 800 that were first released at the end of the year, discussion of Creative Computing issues starting from April and the very first Compute! magazine, and a review of a game original to the Atari 8- bits and destined to become an all-time classic game: Star Raiders.
Show Notes:¶
Introduction¶
Feedback¶
- ANTIC, The Atari 8-bit Podcast with Randy Kindig, Kevin Savetz and Brad Arnold, all about Atari 8-bit computers
- No Quarter with Carrington Vanston and Mike Maginnes, the classic arcade podcast
- Drop /// Inches with Mike Maginnis and Paul Hagstrom, a fairly technical podcast about the Apple ///
- The Atari 2600 Game-by-Game Podcast with Ferg, the review of all 2600 carts in parts-number order
- Atari timeline
- Atari Party
- Arcade inspired artwork
- Rick Keene’s cover for STLog Issue 18
Technical details¶
Creative Computing Overview¶
Creative Computing Vol 5 # 4, April 1979¶
- Vector 1
- Atari at the Winter CES
- Elements of a Good Computer Game by Sol Friedman
- aesthetics and your computer
- ad for an Exidy Sorcerer
- For Women Only! Making friends with that computer by Lorraine Mecca
- Sexism in Computer Science
- No Quarter #94: Mike and Carrington talk about gender stereotypes and games
- Atari Inc. Enters Personal-Home Computer Industry
- Music composition on a Honeywell 1646
- Marin Computer Center
- Car Computers
- “I’d rather be playing spacewar” T-shirt ($5)
- Vertical graphs and bar
- back cover: Ohio Scientific
Creative Computing Vol 5 # 5, May 1979¶
Creative Computing Vol 5 # 6, June 1979¶
Creative Computing Vol 5 # 7, July 1979¶
Creative Computing Vol 5 # 8, August 1979¶
- Cover: swords and shield dude in a fantasy worldscape
- June Chicago CES
- The Intellivisionaries Podcast
- Atari news
- Brief review of the TI 99/4 (not /4A) computer
- Interview with Peter Rosenthal of Atari
- White Paper on the database used by Adventure by Scott Adams
- GET LAMP by Jason Scott (of archive.org)
- Structured programming in BASIC
- ad for IRIDIS, a cassette magazine for the Atari
Creative Computing Vol 5 # 9, September 1979¶
Creative Computing Vol 5 # 10, October 1979¶
Creative Computing Vol 5 # 11, November 1979¶
Creative Computing Vol 5 # 12, December 1979¶
Game Review: STAR RAIDERS¶
- http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-star-raiders_4992.html
- NY Times article on 10 most important video games of all time
