ANTIC Interview 302 - Patricia Mitchell, Thorn EMI
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Patricia Mitchell, Thorn EMI
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Patricia Mitchell started at Thorn EMI in 1981.\\xa0 She worked in the home computer software division, evaluating software that had been submitted by programmers.\\xa0
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Thorn EMI published many games for the Atari 8-bit computers, including River Rescue, Carnival Massacre, Orc Attack, Kickback, Submarine Commander, Computer War, and Jumbo Jet Pilot.
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Later she worked at Virgin Games.
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This interview took place on April 27, 2017.
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In it, we talk a little about about Steve Green. Steve bought Patricia\'s old Atari computer on eBay, which included pre-production versions of five Thorn EMI games. Steve made ROM dumps of those games and uploaded them to Internet Archive.\\xa0
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"One of the most embarrassing things for the management at the time was they turned down a game that was submitted that was called Elite ... It was the first 3-D graphics that were rendered in wireframe."
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Steve Green\\u2019s ROM dumps:
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