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PM Magazine - Leeza Gibbons interviews Games By Apollo


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Excellent post thanks for sharing here! Great to see the perspective from back in the day! 

I am Rob aka MaximumRD aka OldSchoolRetroGamer and THIS is my world http://about.me/maximumrd

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Of course we see the ever elusive "monogrammed" version of Spacechase done for Leeza Gibbons in this YT clip! Yes this was available back-in-the-day:

spacechase_monogrammed_i.jpg

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacechase

 

BTW, the 10 copies or so of the personalized edition that were actually sold, have the exact label as the regular edition. The only way to tell is to play the game!

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Nice post. StopDrop&Retro covered Apollo Games and the story of Pat Roper in a recent video he did about the Retro VGS, and attempted to draw comparisons. The story of Apollo Games starts at 6:27

 

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That video is awesome.  So many observations:

  • They programmed on Atari 800's with 810 disk drives!
  • Do they actually wear 3 piece suits all the time?  Or is that just for the TV interviews?
  • Leeza Gibbons had a much more pronounced accent.
  • Such a manual process in creating the carts!
  • No mention of Racquetball. 

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