Could we, MSX´ers, have our very own MSX related interview section on the "Articles" section?
I am talking about almost totally missing interviews of 1980s game developers, software house employees, computer club workers, etc. Few years ago we got an interview of ex-Konami UK PR manager and we have heard the words from the founder and owner of Electric Adventures, and some other little information here and there during years, but all those information are buried somewhere in the topics, with an exception of that PR manager, this interview can be found from the Articles section, but that´s all we have there. Having an "Interviews" section might encourage some people to try and make interviews.
I think it would be really great to have many interviews and all those interviews and information about old game developers etc. put into one place, under one link.
And it would be a good thing to start to do all this soon, before it´s too late. Isn´t that ex-Konami UK PR manager dead already? We just got his interview just a few years ago, and now he´s dead. If we still keep waiting, more and more people will get older and older, they will lose their last interest to the old computers or they just disappear, maybe they will move to the new location and nobody knows where they have moved and may disappear from the web or stop using their email, or will have a bad accident or will die otherwise.
A good start would be to get an interview of Mr. Electric Adventures, that would be an easy thing to do. Somebody always knows somebody who knows some old 1980s game programmer who has programmed or ported games to MSX. No matter how much many people may hate Spectrum ports, I think it would be interesting to read interviews from those guys, who did the job back then. Even a small interviews would be great!
There were companies, like Codemasters and Mastertronic who published MSX games, even their MSX range was very small when compared to competiting computer brands, Spectrum, Amstrad and Commodore 64. It would be great to have interview of Codemasters´ Darling brothers (the founders) to ask what they thought about MSX, or was their MSX interest just for money? Do those Darlings still own Codemasters? If they do, it should be quite easy to at least contact them. I hope those interviews could have some questions about how 1980s game developers, company owners, etc. thought about whole computer gaming industry or quality of games, etc., back then and not just about MSX games only.
Electric Software, Orpheus and Aackosoft did nice colourful games, using MSX´s sprites and SCREEN 2, also making good music! I hope we could get interview of somebodies who worked there. Yes, Aackosoft also made MSX2 games, hope to read more about such things too soon! Radarsoft had made both MSX and MSX2 games. I would like to hear more about "World Map" game.
Possibly musicians and graphic makers opinions about their game(s) would be nice to read, even shorter comments. Local electronics/computer/game shop owner/employee interviews are also welcomed!
Gominolas made tunes to Viejo´s game, and same game got great artwork from the old 1980s game cover art maker. They both can probably be still contacted for an interview. No matter, if their work were not just MSX only, I am very interested to hear about anything they can remember about those times and what they were asked to do, did they got any suggestions which kind of tunes/drawings to do, etc..
It would be nice to have old game developers/port makers even somehow mentioned, even if nobody knows anything about them, then even having just their names (with the names of the games, of course) mentioned in some game developer list would be nice. Any little information more about those game developers would be a nice bonus!
Now, anybody who knew somebody, please start searching and contacting those somebodies, before it´s too late!