ANTIC Interview 147 -Mike Potter: Protector II, Shadow World, Nautilus, Chicken

Published: March 18, 2016, 7 a.m.

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Mike Potter: Protector II, Shadow World, Nautilus, Chicken

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Mike Potter ported several Apple II games to the Atari 8-bit computers

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for Crystalware, including Protector. He later developed five programs

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for Synapse Software: Protector, Protector II, Chicken, Nautilus and

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Shadow World \\u2014 in a one year period, with the combined sales of 93,000

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copies.

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In this interview we discuss Steve Hales and Ihor Wolosenko, both of

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whom I previously interviewed. This interview took place October 22,

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2015.

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Teaser quote:

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"Let\'s see, I got married in \'84, and my brother-in-law had every

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single one of my games pirated. And I was like, \'What? You have all my

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games!\'"

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AtariMania\'s list of Mike\'s games - http://www.atarimania.com/list_games_atari-400-800-xl-xe-potter-mike_team_1073_8_G.html

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Mike\\u2019s web site, includes history and videos of people playing the Atari titles - http://mikepotterhere.com

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