NF: What was the experience like writing for the book, "How to Master the Video Games?" NF: Could you describe the industry as it stood when you joined it? NF: How did you get your first position at Avalon Hill? What role did you end up attaining and what did you know about them as a gaming company beforehand? NF: Do you see the bubble that you described existing today in the current games industry? NF: What does the current landscape look like for Indie developers like yours

Jane Terjung was a designer and programmer at Mattel Electronics’s Atari 2600 division M-Network, where she is known for co-designing the Atari 2600 cartridge Kool-Aid Man with Steve Tatsumi who programmed the game. The bulk of Mrs. Terjung’s work at Mattel was done on designing and programming an unreleased Dungeons and Dragons branded game for the Atari 2600, which would later be known as Tower of Mystery. The game, described in detail below, fell victim to Mattel Electron

Patricia Goodson created original music as well as recreations of coin op contemporaries for video games in the early eighties. She was one of the few to specifically hold a position like hers, let alone the only women with this role in the industry at the time. She joined a team of engineers at the General Computer Company where she worked on games such as Desert Falcon, Pac-Man Junior, and numerous other cartridge based games for the Atari 2600, Atari 5200, and Atari 7800.

Owen Rubin worked for Atari as an Software Engineer from 1976-1984, he developed 15+ coin operated arcade cabinets such as Major Havoc...

Marilyn Churchill was Atari's first Graphics Artist and she led the first team of Graphic artists at Atari.

The following interview took place through email from the dates of July 18-20, 2019. The original emails have been formatted to be...