8bitrocket.com Interviewed!

Posted on August 11, 2010 by 8bit_admin

Steve Savage over at Fan To Pro took the time to interview us last week about all things 8bitrocket.  If you are intersted in that sort of thing, go over here and take a look:

http://www.fantopro.com/blog/2010/08/an-interview-with-steve-and-jeff-of-8-bit-rocket.html#more

Also, we have added  the Fan-To-Pro RSS feed to our Industry Feeds page…

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  • Ziro

    Hey.

    That's cool you guys got an interview!

    Jeff: “… I love the fact that free tools are available for almost anyone who wants to make a game…I also hate the fact that free tools are available for almost anyone who wants to make a game.”

    Hahaha!

    Seriously, I really like both your answers to questions 5 – 7, though. Lots of encouragement and moral support there. If I may add my two cents, it would be to not pay attention to the haters. Ignore them and keep on making your games.

    But one question still remains: Which one of you is the better Donkey Kong player??? (-:

  • http://www.8bitrocket.com 8bitjeff

    I don't think either of us is very good. I remember us both being ok at the 2600 and Atari 800 versions, but the arcade version was just too difficult. By the way, I feel that the 2600 version gets a lot of undeserved crap. It only has 2 screens but is a technical marvel. I think we understood the limitation of the technology back then and were more excited by advances in game development than the actual games (on the early consoles). I do remember when Donkey Kong hit the arcades though. We played it a lot, but I was more interested in Pole Position and Space Duel. With $3 and 8 tokens for a dollar we had to be pretty conservative on how we spend out 24 game plays.

  • 8bitrocket

    I've made it to level the “pie” level (so through 1,2,4,1,2,3) a few times, but that's it. Love the game tho. Play it to death on my Atari 800.

  • Ziro

    Hey.

    Ha! Thanks for the answers.

    I never played it on any Atari system, although I did own a 2600. However, I owned it on the Colecovision, and played it a lot. I was pretty good at it (or maybe this version was too easy compared to others?)

    Yeah, I agree, the arcade version was harder. Arcade versions of games usually seem harder than their home console counterparts.

    I'll have to look up DK on the 2600 sometime. (:

    - Ziro out.