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Jerry Jewell Interview

Mar 10, 20221 hr 14 min
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Episode description

Jerry Jewell was the cofounder of Sirius Software, one of the great early developers of games for the Apple II. Together with luminaries like Nasir Gebelli, Sirius made Steve Wozniak's brain child the go-to computer for entertainment in the early 80s.
Find out how the business worked back then, the comradery between competitors in the industry, and how the video game crash took them down.

Links:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ComputerLand
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasir_Gebelli
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirius_Software
https://www.mobygames.com/company/sirius-software-inc
https://www.mobygames.com/game/space-eggs
https://www.mobygames.com/company/northwest-synergistic-software
https://closinglogosgroup.miraheze.org/wiki/Fox_Video_Games
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kmart
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softalk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Computing_(magazine)
https://www.mobygames.com/company/fox-video-games-inc
http://www.skulltronix.com/

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