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Jerry Jewell Interview

Jerry Jewell Interview

Video Game Newsroom Time Machine · Karl Kuras

March 10, 20221h 13m

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Show Notes

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.

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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/