Scene World Tech History Interviews

Steve Wiebe is a former world record holder in the arcade game "Donkey Kong". He talks about the excitement and the hard challenge of being on top!

Filipp Issa and Michael Stoeckemann form together the No. 1 video game music production label "Sound Of Games"! In this interview they talk about their success and way from rock bottom to skyscraper top!

So for everybody who missed our live broadcast with WIFI modem inventor and the coder of NetRacer, and Vortex 2: This is a recorded version of it

Ralph Baer is video game pioneer, inventor and engineer, known as "The Father of Video Games". He also received the National Medal of Technology for inventing the home console for video games and spawning the video game industry.

Jeri Ellsworth is a self-taught computer chip designer. She is best known for creating a Commodore 64 emulator within a joystick, in 2004, called C64 Direct-to-TV. and the ATX-motherboard C64 clone called "Commodore One".

Richie Knucklez, also referred to as "The King Of The Arcade" is an arcade owner and he is known for repairing arcades in a way that they work 100% and look as good as shiny new and never used! He also starred in the movie "The King of the Arcades".

Petro Tyschtschenko has been been working for Commodore/AMIGA longer than any other Commodore employee (1982-2001). Worked at Commodore as Director Internatinal Logistics and Materials and lateron as CEO. Also was CEO of Amiga lateron

<p>Franky is a long time scener in the demoscene and he is also organizer for many demoscene parties for the retro area! And exactly in here, he tasks about what it means to be an organizer for retro systems and being a demoscener in general</p>

Commercial game graphician in the 90s, nowadays still winning 1st place prices in graphics competitons, shares his insights into the process of designing and turning visions into visible results.

Arcade, Pong, Atari, Nolan Bushnell

Mike Clarke is a famous composer who former worked for Psygnosis. Among his most known works are the musics for Last Ninja 2 on the Amiga or e.g. Lemmings 2 on the SNES. He speaks about his experience of doing "a little bit of everything" as a composer

Marty Cooper is the inventor of the mobile phone! In this video he clarifies many of the myths and rumors about the invention of the mobile phone.

he is one of the early C64 programmers programming games like Space Taxi and Solo Flight 2nd Edition in the early 80s. Space Taxi especially celebrating a huge recognition by its unique gameplay and accurate physics at that time as well as digit. speech.

<p>John Draper aka Captain Crunch perfectinized blueboxing in the 60s and 70s (= phone line hacking) and coded 'Easywriter', word processor program.</p>

john Cioffi is the inventor of the DSL technology, he and his team invented what lead to broadband internet all over the world. He talks about the big challenge of getting signals and so high bandwidth over the telephone copper wire.

<p>John Chowning is the pioneer in FM synthesis, which he discovered as a musician by ear</p>

Jeroen Tel is a video game musician since the 80s and still active today.

James Marcus Bach is a famous software tester that pioneered in that field and invented several testing techniques. In this interview he talks about that, his daily life and adventures in software testing, the social component of testing, etc

Hans Ippisch is a game industry veteran who is unique for his broad view of the video game industry due to his broad field of employment in his life. He started out 1986 as a coder for the well-known computer game developing studio "Rainbow Arts"

Hank Chien is a former and current world record holder in the arcade game "Donkey Kong". He talks about the excitement and the hard challenge of being on top!

Friedhelm Hillebrand is the inventor of the SMS. In 1984 he had the idea of making cheap and fast text transmission over the cellular network possible.

from Deutsches Filmmuseum in Frankfurt Joerg and AJ interview : * Krystal Herring from Twitch.tv - Marketing Events Manager She talks about her exciting journey from being a Frag Doll at Ubisoft to her employment at Twitch.tv.

from Deutsches Filmmuseum in Frankfurt Joerg interviews: * Scott Miller, games industry legend and founder of Apogee Software, which later became 3D Realms * Mike Nielson, CEO 3D Realms * Frederik Schreiber, VP 3D Realms

Jay Maynard -- "The Tron Guy" -- is one of the first celebrities born of the internet. AJ, Joerg, and special chat host Sven Voessing, talk to him LIVE at the Film Museum of Frankfurt.

He is the retro compo / section organizer of all major demoscene parties. (C64, Atari, Amiga, you name it... ), e.g. the biggest one, Revision or the smaller one TUM! More about him at his Commodore 64 Scene Database profile http://csdb.dk/scener/?id=1732