12/29/2009 My Interview with Arnie Katz
(Co-Founder Of Electronic Games magazine) Up At Gamastra

New Atari Nerd Blog Entry : My interview with Arnie Katz is now up at Gamasutra.
If you don't know who Arnie Katz might be, here is the intro I wrote for the interview:

Arnie Katz was a pioneer of video game journalism. In the late1970s he, along with Bill Kunkel, started Arcade Alley in Video Magazine, thefirst column about video games in a major publication. Then, in 1981, Katz alongwith his wife Joyce Worley and Kunkel started Electronic Games magazine, thefirst ever magazine dedicated entirely to video games.

Inside the pages of Electronic Games, Katz, Kunkel [also interviewed by Gamasutra in recent years], and Worleyinvented video game journalism. The format of the magazine, letters, reviews,previews, features and many other types of content, while frequently borrowedfrom established traditions of magazine publishing, were molded to the subjectof video games for the first time.

While there were othersources, at no other time in the history of video games has a single fountainof ideas and knowledge like Electronic Games led the charge in hearts of minds ofso many people.

More after the jump...

Read The Full Article:
http://www.8bitrocket.com/newsdisplay.aspx?newspage=35446

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