Interviews 🎤

STLVGMO founder Jovi Vongnaraj talks about community musicians, arranging game soundtracks, growing an audience, and bringing video game music to the St. Louis stage.

SameBoy creator Lior Halphon talks Game Boy audio and LCD timing, boot ROMs, Super Game Boy, automated tests, and commercial rereleases.

David Crane answers 45 questions about Pitfall!, Activision, Atari 2600 programming, Pitfall II, Little Computer People, A Boy and His Blob, and Audacity Games.

Jeff Vogel talks Exile, Avernum, Geneforge, remasters, RPG storytelling, and the business of keeping Spiderweb Software small for more than three decades.

Sandy Petersen answers 30 questions about designing Doom and Quake, joining Ensemble Studios, Age of Empires, Call of Cthulhu, and his favorite projects.

Christian Bauer on Frodo’s SID sound, VIC-II research, ShapeShifter, Basilisk II, SheepShaver, BeOS, and the hardware experiments behind his emulators.

Ken Silverman talks Build, Ken’s Labyrinth, Duke Nukem 3D, multiplayer prediction, assembly optimization, BUILD2, and Voxel Photonics.

Roberta Williams talks Sierra, King’s Quest, Phantasmagoria, Colossal Cave, and life at sea in an extensive Retro Replay interview with video excerpts.

BlastEm creator Michael Pavone discusses Genesis accuracy, hardware testing, Overdrive 2, Sega CD, 32X, and his approach to human-written emulator code.

UAE creator Bernd Schmidt recalls early Amiga emulation, Turrican, Usenet debates, open source, JIT experiments, and the project’s many descendants.

Spencer Nilsen recalls Sonic CD, Ecco, Batman Returns, Spider-Man, David Young, Sega’s recording studios, and returning to Ecco’s musical world.

Bastian Schick shares Atari Lynx and Jaguar development memories, Gauntlet discoveries, T-Tris, BLL and BJL tools, and archival hardware photographs.

Robert Holmes talks Gabriel Knight, Jane Jensen, Sierra, and A Simple Refrain II, with two full listening tracks performed by Roger Hooper.

Carl Forhan discusses Songbird Productions, Atari Lynx and Jaguar development, lost games, Skyhammer, CyberVirus, and decades of cartridge publishing.

Tony Dickinson talks The Tiberian Sons, Frank Klepacki, Command & Conquer, Ace Combat, and turning game soundtracks into orchestral metal.

Scott Adams remembers Adventureland, the TRS-80, Adventure International, Pirate Adventure, The Count and Marvel’s Questprobe in our exclusive interview.

George Sanger discusses Wing Commander, Loom and Team Fat, with stories from a career spanning Maniac Mansion and Zombies Ate My Neighbors.

ScummVM project leader Eugene Sandulenko talks Full Throttle, Blade Runner, Director, reverse engineering and keeping a volunteer project alive.

David Ortiz of Mariachi Entertainment System talks DuckTales, Metroid, arranging game music for mariachi, teaching and Noche En Hyrule.

Brian and Reece of Console discuss live video game music, Press Start, Metal Gear Solid, arranging classic soundtracks and building a band in Hawaiʻi.

Westwood co-founder Louis Castle talks to Retro Replay about Dune II, Command & Conquer, Kane, Blade Runner, studio culture, and Monarch Game Studios.