Mitch Balsam's guest appearances

Mitch Balsam

ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Podcast

Jason Moore

Michael Phillips

Jason Scott

David Young

Steve Robinson

Scott Adams

Dave Johnson

Ben Smith

Michael Katz

Peter Shankman

Nolan Bushnell

Kevin Hayes

John Constantine

Peter Hirshberg

Steve Cohen

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Mitch Balsam: NY Atari Research Lab Mitch Balsam was hired at Atari to work as a game programmer for the Atari 2600, and worked on an unreleased game called Electric Yoyo. Later, at Atari Research in New York, he worked on more unreleased products including The Graduate, an add-on computer keyboard component for the Atari 2600; and a buildable robot toy. At Scholastic, he developed educational software titles for the Apple ][ computer. This interview took place on April 3, 2016. Teaser quotes: "Each game developer had a room, and the more successful ones had checks on their door, which were their royalty checks. ... So there were checks there for $200,000, $300,000." "Yeah, it was rough. I'd still say that programming for the 2600 was probably the hardest thing I've ever done." "We'd call California, 'Hey, are you our boss?' No. 'Are YOU our boss?' No." The Graduate Computer: http://www.atarimuseum.com/videogames/consoles/2600/a3000.html Mitch on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mbalsam Scholastic Success with Reading for the Apple ][

Mitch Balsam: NY Atari Research Lab Mitch Balsam was hired at Atari to work as a game programmer for the Atari 2600, and worked on an unreleased game called Electric Yoyo. Later, at Atari Research in New York, he worked on more unreleased products including The Graduate, an add-on computer keyboard component for the Atari 2600; and a buildable robot toy. At Scholastic, he developed educational software titles for the Apple ][ computer. This interview took place on April 3, 2016. Teaser quotes: "Each game developer had a room, and the more successful ones had checks on their door, which were their royalty checks. ... So there were checks there for $200,000, $300,000." "Yeah, it was rough. I'd still say that programming for the 2600 was probably the hardest thing I've ever done." "We'd call California, 'Hey, are you our boss?' No. 'Are YOU our boss?' No." The Graduate Computer: <a href="http://www.atarimuseum.com/videogames/consoles/2600/a3000.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.atarimuseum.com/videogames/consoles/2600/a3000.html</a> Mitch on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/mbalsam" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/mbalsam</a> <a href="https://archive.org/details/SuccessWithReading4amCrack" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Scholastic Success with Reading for the Apple ][</a>

ANTIC Interview 213 - Mitch Balsam: NY Atari Research Lab