The Ted Dabney Experience

The Ted Dabney Experience. Intimate conversations with leading lights from the golden age of video arcade gaming. A podcast project by Richard May, Paul Drury (Retro Gamer magazine) and Tony Temple (author of Missile Commander). Brought to you in association with The American Classic Arcade Museum (US) and Arcade Archive (UK).

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Episodes (48)

Jul 19, 2025 TDE EP42 - Atari UK Cofounder Alistair Crooks
May 11, 2025 TDE EP41 - GCC Cofounder & Ms. Pac-Man Co-creator Doug Macrae
Feb 12, 2025 TDE EP40 - Atari Project Manager John Ray

The Ted Dabney Experience

Jul 19, 2025
96 MB

Despite lacking any knowledge whatsoever of the amusement industry, Kellogs sales manager Alistair Crooks and eccentric former RAF airman Phil Smith convinced a young Nolan Bushnell that they were the right men to introduce Atari’s Pong to the United Kingdom in 1973. Swiftly moving from importing to manufacturing, the company arguably grew too fast and was ill positioned to weather the perfect storm of the OPEC Oil Crisis and the Three Day Week, ultimately lasting only fourteen months. This is a nuts-and-bolts yet captivating tale of what might have been, recounted with modesty and good humour.

The Ted Dabney Experience

TDE EP42 - Atari UK Cofounder Alistair Crooks

The Ted Dabney Experience

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