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Spillhistorie: Interview with game designer Jon Hare (Sensible Software) (25. Feb. 2025)
The Norwegian games magazine Spillhistorie.no has published an interview with Jon Hare, co-founder of Sensible Software. In the conversation, Hare shares insights into the studio's origins, the development of iconic games such as Sensible Soccer, Cannon F...

Spillhistorie: Interview with game designer Steve Meretzky (Infocom) (05. Feb. 2025)
For the Norwegian website Spillhistorie, Joachim Froholt, with the support of Hans Arne Jacobsen, conducted another interview - this time with Steve Meretzky, who designed various text adventures for Infocom, which were then also ported to the Amiga, such...

Spillhistorie: Interview with Michael Haire (Microprose) (19. Jan. 2025)
Hans Arne Jacobsen and Joachim Froholt have conducted another interview for the Norwegian website Spillhistorie - this time with Michael Haire, the former head of Microprose's graphics department. Michael Haire worked on classics such as Sid Meier's Pi...

Interview with Linus 'lftkryo' Åkesson (27. Oct. 2024)
At the title link Jon Håvard Gundersen has conducted another interview for the Norwegian site Spillhistorie, this time with Linus 'lftkryo' Åkesson. The Swede is known for numerous demos and music disks for the Amiga and the C64 and probably above all for...

Interview: Plaion Marketing Manager on licensing games for retro consoles (08. Oct. 2024)
The Norwegian video game culture magazine spillhistorie.no has published an interview (‘Licensing is a complicated business’) with Simon Turner, Marketing Director UK and responsible for the global marketing of the retro division. He talks abo...

Interview with Robert Koon (Amiga conversion of Dune II) (29. Sep. 2024)
In another interview by Spillhistorie, Hans Arne Jacobsen spoke this time with Robert Koon, one of the developers involved in the Amiga conversion of Westwood's strategy classic Dune II. He is currently working on a new version, which should eliminat...

Interview with Jim Sachs (13. Sep. 2024)
Following on from the double interview on Ports of Call conducted together with Hans Arne Jacobsen (amiga-news.de reported), Joachim Froholt has now spoken to Jim Sachs again for their Norwegian website “Spillhistorie” at the title link in ord...

Interview with Rolf-Dieter Klein and Jim Sachs about "Ports of Call" (08. Jul. 2024)
For their Norwegian website "Spillhistorie" Hans Arne J. ('Retrogamingpappa') and Joachim Froholt have conducted an interview with two fathers of the well-known Amiga game "Ports of Call", namely Rolf-Dieter Klein, one of the two developers alongside Mart...

Worth a read: Interview with Gary Carlston (Brøderbund) (19. Jun. 2024)
The Norwegian video game culture magazine spillhistorie.no has published an interesting interview with Gary Carlston, co-founder of the popular game studio Brøderbund. The US company with its Nordic-sounding name has produced classics and bestsellers such...