ANTIC Interview 93 - Gerri Brioso: Halftime Battlin' Bands, Coco-Notes, Movie Musical Madness
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Gerri Brioso: Halftime Battlin\' Bands, Coco-Notes, Movie Musical Madness
\\nGerri Brioso is part of The Dovetail Group, a company that created three children\\u2019s games for the Atari 400/800 and Commodore 64 computers. All three games were released in 1984: they were Halftime Battlin\' Bands, Coco-Notes, and Movie Musical Madness, all of which were released by CBS software.
\\nWikipedia says "These games are notable as they represent some of the earliest examples of the music management subgenre of music video games." The games were also notable because each of those games included a plastic record album, playable on a phonograph, which served as the games\\u2019 instruction manuals. The characters in the games and records \\u2014 Swivel Hips, Wahoo, and Mr. Bass Man \\u2014 made up a fictional band called The Jazz Scats.
\\nThis interview occurred on July 30 and 31, 2015.
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\\n\\u201cThey made it doubly hard for us because they suddenly wanted us to not just create for the Atari platform, but to also create for the Commodore platform. So the work became double ... and suddenly deadlines were not being met.\\u201d
\\n\\u201cRich had to hold me back because my hands were going around the computer programmer\\u2019s throat. I thought I would kill him. ... Where\\u2019s the backup? He said, \\u2018I was just getting ready to back it up.\\u2019 I was like, \\u201cYou didn\\u2019t back it up in stages? What, are you crazy?!\\u201d \\xa0
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