14) The Movie Duels
Hell, there are no rules here – we’re trying to accomplish something.
Thomas Edison
There’s a story that on the November night in 1972 when HBO went on the air for the very first time to a few hundred subscribers in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Gerald Levin – then HBO’s top programmer and soon-to-be chief exec – ordered living room furniture installed in his office so he could watch that premiere night of HBO the way the channel’s first subscribers would see it. He wanted to see HBO through their eyes.
Today, in an era of Netflix, Hulu, on-demand, downloadable content available on almost everything but the kitchen toaster, it’s hard to appreciate how novel the concept of HBO was over 40 years ago. Except for a few small pockets of the country which had experienced the come-and-go efforts of earlier subscription TV services, nobody – including the people running...
Hell, there are no rules here – we’re trying to accomplish something.
Thomas Edison
There’s a story that on the November night in 1972 when HBO went on the air for the very first time to a few hundred subscribers in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Gerald Levin – then HBO’s top programmer and soon-to-be chief exec – ordered living room furniture installed in his office so he could watch that premiere night of HBO the way the channel’s first subscribers would see it. He wanted to see HBO through their eyes.
Today, in an era of Netflix, Hulu, on-demand, downloadable content available on almost everything but the kitchen toaster, it’s hard to appreciate how novel the concept of HBO was over 40 years ago. Except for a few small pockets of the country which had experienced the come-and-go efforts of earlier subscription TV services, nobody – including the people running...
- 9/2/2013
- by Bill Mesce
- SoundOnSight
Developer Pop Quiz is a weekly interview series in which we ask developers from around the industry the same 10 questions and post their responses.
Playing "NBA Jam" in the arcades in the early 1990s was an experience that most gamers have never forgotten, but one fan, Trey Smith, turned it into much more than just a memory. Going from playing the game in the arcades to helping create a revitalized version, Smith has helped put the "NBA Jam" name back on the map as the game's Creative Director, and he's answering our questions about video games in this week's Developer Pop Quiz.
Name: Trey Smith
Title: Creative Director
Company: Electronic Arts
Job Description: Part Director, part Designer, part Producer
First title worked on: "Spider-Man" PS1/Dreamcast
Most recent title worked on: "NBA Jam"
What game has most influenced you, and why?
Honestly, I'd have to say the original "NBA Jam.
Playing "NBA Jam" in the arcades in the early 1990s was an experience that most gamers have never forgotten, but one fan, Trey Smith, turned it into much more than just a memory. Going from playing the game in the arcades to helping create a revitalized version, Smith has helped put the "NBA Jam" name back on the map as the game's Creative Director, and he's answering our questions about video games in this week's Developer Pop Quiz.
Name: Trey Smith
Title: Creative Director
Company: Electronic Arts
Job Description: Part Director, part Designer, part Producer
First title worked on: "Spider-Man" PS1/Dreamcast
Most recent title worked on: "NBA Jam"
What game has most influenced you, and why?
Honestly, I'd have to say the original "NBA Jam.
- 10/8/2010
- by Jason Cipriano
- MTV Multiplayer
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