[koz1000]

Warren obviously downplays his work after Gottlieb/Ratslime* because this talk is about Q*Bert but it's worth watching the documentary Insert Coin about the technology he was helping to develop at Williams/Bally/Midway in the years afterward.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1OXgCmOvbQ

The digitization of live actors wasn't completely novel but definitely helped accelerate a generation of iconic arcade titles in the 1990s.

(* I had heard the story about "Mylstar spelled backwards is Ratslym!" from others in the business and nobody could remember who it was but Warren admits it was him and that's awesome.)

[KerrAvon]

I'll plug his book here, then:

https://warrendavisshop.square.site

(scroll down a bit)

It's a fun read and it goes into depth on the later games. I bought an autographed copy for myself before the GDC video was available and was surprised to learn about his impact on the later Williams games. I hadn't made that connection before.

[MBCook]

I watched this video yesterday. I laughed at loud at the rat slime part.

Great postmortem.

Also somehow I was never aware of the Q*Bert cartoon. I’m not surprised they tried it, or that it’s… not good. Just that I’d never heard of it before.