David Crane - Creator of Pitfall! | TechJesse Interview #29/50

David Crane is the co-founder of Activision and created one of the most popular video games in the 1980s, Pitfall! He also created A Boy and His Blob along with many other games.

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00:00 Intro
00:24 Getting started in programming
01:25 Boy Scouts
02:18 Electronics tinkering as a kid
03:15 Co-founding Activision
04:15 Culture at Activison
06:33 Comparing corporate cultures
08:07 Venture Capital
09:40 Pitfall!
14:22 Pitfall inspirations
15:31 Pitfall hurdles
18:53 Pitfall's success and Jack Black
22:30 Video game crash of 1983
26:50 After Activision
28:58 Making new games for Atari 2600
31:33 A Boy and His Blob
42:08 Simpsons games
44:45 Other projects
47:58 What Dave is up to these days

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