71. 🕹️ Q*bert Creator Warren Davis

Dan & Manny talk to Warren Davis, the creator of 1982's hit arcade game Q*bert. Warren talks about going from RPI engineering student to improviser at Chicago's Second City to developing Q*bert at Gottlieb, he takes Dan & Manny on a serious deep-dive into how Q*bert went from a simple coding exercise to an arcade smash, are schooled on some arcade game history from the 80s & 90s, and Warren talks about his contributions to Mortal Kombat, NBA Jam, & T2: Judgement Day. This is an amazingly nerdy episode!

If you want to learn even more about Warren Davis and the arcade gaming world, buy his new book Creating Q*bert and Other Classic Video Arcade Games, and get it autographed by Warren!

You can follow Warren Davis on Twitter & Facebook @WarrenDavis29.

Mentioned In This Episode:

• 🎥 The Orange Years: The Nickelodeon Story w/ Director Scott Barber
• Centipede arcade game
• Nintendo
• Atari
• Museum of the Moving Image
• Grasshopper’s Comics
• Magic the Gathering
• Gottlieb Games
• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• The Second City Chicago
• Josephine Forsberg
• Jeff Lee
• Ron Waxman
• Howie Ruben
• Atari 2600
• Pong
• ColecoVision
• Tim Kazurinsky
• Police Academy Franchise
• Sega Genesis
• Faster, Harder, More Challenging Q*bert
• David Thiel
• The MAMA Project (Multi Arcade Machine Emulation)
• Joust Arcade Game
• Popeye Arcade Game
• Laser Disc Arcade
• Dragons Lair
• Space Ace
• Us vs Them Arcade Game
• Mortal Kombat
• NBA Jam
• T2: Judgement Day Arcade Game
• Ed Boon
• John Tobias
• Mark Turmell
• Revolution X
• George Petro
• Jack Haeger
• Oculus Quest
• Fortnite
• Myst
• Shivers (game)
• The Pandora Directive (game)
• The Room (game)
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