{"id":222,"date":"2006-11-05T22:31:32","date_gmt":"2006-11-06T03:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=222"},"modified":"2006-11-06T09:38:25","modified_gmt":"2006-11-06T14:38:25","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-so-you-want-to-be-a-video-games-inventor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/222\/retro-scan-of-the-week-so-you-want-to-be-a-video-games-inventor","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">Retro Scan of the Week:<\/span> &#8220;So You Want to Be a Video Games Inventor&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"caption\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/vg_inventor_large.jpg\" target=\"new\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/vg_inventor_small.jpg\" alt=\"So You Want to Be a Video Games Inventor\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption_text\">So&#8230;you&#8217;d like to be a Video Games <em>Inventor<\/em>, eh?  Well, sorry, but you have to look like the guy in the lower left.  And to do that, you have to go back in time to 1982 and work for Magnavox.  By the way, that guy is only twenty years old.<\/p>\n<p>(Ok&#8230;the article says 35, but still.)<\/p>\n<p>This scan came from the premiere (Winter 1982) issue of &#8220;Odyssey\u00c2\u00b2 Adventure Club Magazine,&#8221; Magnavox&#8217;s official monthly magazine \/ propaganda pamphlet for Odyssey\u00c2\u00b2 fans &#8212; sorta like Nintendo Power these days.  Actually, &#8220;Odyssey\u00c2\u00b2 Adventure&#8221;  is more a newsletter than a magazine, since all the issues I have are only about fifteen pages long.  Nonetheless, this article is an amusing look into the world of Odyssey\u00c2\u00b2 game developers, straight from the horse&#8217;s mouth.<\/p>\n<p>A quick compare-and-contrast of these guys with Atari&#8217;s &#8220;pot-smoking hippie&#8221; game programmer image of the late 1970s and even today&#8217;s &#8220;early twenties slacker&#8221; programmers makes the Odyssey folks look like a bunch of straight-laced leprechaun engineers. Ralph Baer, what hath thou wrought!<\/p>\n<p><small><em>If you use this image on your site, please support &#8220;Retro Scan of the Week&#8221; by giving us obvious credit for the original scan and entry.  Thanks.<\/em><\/small><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So&#8230;you&#8217;d like to be a Video Games Inventor, eh? Well, sorry, but you have to look like the guy in the lower left. And to do that, you have to go back in time to 1982 and work for Magnavox. By the way, that guy is only twenty years old. (Ok&#8230;the article says 35, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,13,24,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-design","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-humor","category-retro-scan-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}