Dennis Koble's guest appearances

Dennis Koble

ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Podcast

The Ted Dabney Experience

Kevin Hayes

Owen Rubin

David Thiel

Nolan Bushnell

Ed Rotberg

Steve Robinson

Scott Adams

Dave Johnson

Ben Smith

Michael Katz

Peter Shankman

John Constantine

Peter Hirshberg

Brian Colin

Steve Cohen

OwlTail

Recruited by the company in 1976, Dennis Koble was one of Atari’s earliest coin-op game designers. Koble stayed with Atari for five years and was responsible for such notable titles as Avalanche, Sprint 2 and Dominos, before leaving to co-found Imagic. In 1984 Dennis would return to coin-op as Director of Software for Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell’s Sente. At no point did he sit in a hot tub.

<p>Recruited by the company in 1976, Dennis Koble was one of Atari’s earliest coin-op game designers. Koble stayed with Atari for five years and was responsible for such notable titles as Avalanche, Sprint 2 and Dominos, before leaving to co-found Imagic. In 1984 Dennis would return to coin-op as Director of Software for Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell’s Sente. At no point did he sit in a hot tub.</p>

TDE EP13 - Atari veteran Dennis Koble

Dennis Koble: APX Avalanche, Imagic   Dennis Koble was an early Atari employee, where we would become manager of the computer and consumer divisions. He designed Atari's "Touch Me" handheld electronic game. He also wrote three programs that were published by Atari Program Exchange: Avalanche, an adaption of the coin-op game which he also created; and the text adventure games Chinese Puzzle and Sultan's Palace.    He was at Atari for about 4 1/2 years before leaving to co-found the video game publisher Imagic. There, he was perhaps best known for creating "Atlantis" for the Atari 2600 (which we don't actually talk about in this interview.)   This interview took place on May 15, 2018. A video version of this interview is available.   "We had to show our best stuff. And we wanted to show technological tricks that we figured the Activision guys hadn't seen before. I don't know if they felt that rivalry toward us at that point, but it became a rivalry a little later, it really did."     Video version of this interview AtariMania's list of Dennis' games 2017 ataricompendium.com interview with Dennis Dale Yocum interview Lee Actor interview Bob Smith interview Rawson Stovall interview

Dennis Koble: APX Avalanche, Imagic   Dennis Koble was an early Atari employee, where we would become manager of the computer and consumer divisions. He designed Atari's "Touch Me" handheld electronic game. He also wrote three programs that were published by Atari Program Exchange: Avalanche, an adaption of the coin-op game which he also created; and the text adventure games Chinese Puzzle and Sultan's Palace.    He was at Atari for about 4 1/2 years before leaving to co-found the video game publisher Imagic. There, he was perhaps best known for creating "Atlantis" for the Atari 2600 (which we don't actually talk about in this interview.)   This interview took place on May 15, 2018. <a href="https://youtu.be/NemAwk_2ZjQ" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">A video version of this interview is available.</a>   "We had to show our best stuff. And we wanted to show technological tricks that we figured the Activision guys hadn't seen before. I don't know if they felt that rivalry toward us at that point, but it became a rivalry a little later, it really did."    <a href="https://youtu.be/NemAwk_2ZjQ" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank"> Video version of this interview</a><a href="http://www.atarimania.com/list_games_atari-400-800-xl-xe-koble-dennis_team_723_8_G.html" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank"> AtariMania's list of Dennis' games</a><a href="http://www.ataricompendium.com/archives/interviews/dennis_koble/interview_dennis_koble.html" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank"> 2017 ataricompendium.com interview with Dennis</a><a href="https://archive.org/details/DaleYocumInterview" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank"> Dale Yocum interview</a><a href="http://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-218-lee-actor-advanced-musicsystem" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank"> Lee Actor interview</a><a href="http://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-238-bob-smith-video-pinball-imagic-co-founder-sleazy-adventure" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank"> Bob Smith interview</a><a href="http://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-327-rawson-stovall-the-vid-kid-newspaper-column" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank"> Rawson Stovall interview</a>

ANTIC Interview 353 - Dennis Koble: APX Avalanche, Imagic