ANTIC Interview 18 - The Atari 8-bit Podcast - Gardner Pomper, Games Computers Play - a podcast by Randy Kindig, Kay Savetz, Brad Arnold

Gardner Pomper was president and co-founder of Games Computers Play. Games Computers Play was almost certainly the first graphical online service (except for maybe PLATO, depending on how you're counting). It was devoted exclusively to interactive, multi-player games, and it was only for Atari computers. You probably didn't get a chance to use Games Computers Play -- it only managed to get about 1,000 subscribers at its peak. But you may have seen the colorful, enticing advertisement that they ran in the Atari magazines, or read the article about the service in Antic magazine.

A word about the source code mentioned in the interview: they haven’t found it yet, but they believe they have it and are still looking. we’ll let you know here if and when they uncover it.

This interview took place January 28, 2015 over Skype.

LINKS

Antic Magazine article about GCP

Games Computers Play Magazine ad

AtariAge discussion about GCP

 

Further episodes of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Podcast

Further podcasts by Randy Kindig, Kay Savetz, Brad Arnold

Website of Randy Kindig, Kay Savetz, Brad Arnold