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Countdown to CGE 2007 ~ July 2007 ~ 28 JUL 2007 |
Classic Gaming Expo Distinguished Guest:
JOHN SOHL
John P. Sohl was hired by Mattel in October 1980, and was one of the first in-house Intellivision game designers. At Mattel he designed Astrosmash and was the lead designer on B-17 Bomber. In 1982 he moved to Activision, where he worked on an uncompleted game which would have been named Termite! After the market crash in summer 1984, he was a freelance programmer, working on C-64 versions of Mind Pursuit and 221-B Baker Street for Data East. In 1989 he worked as a consultant for Mattel on their Power Glove input device for the Nintendo Entertainment System.
Since 1990, he has worked for several startups involving Japanese companies investing in US multimedia and television.
For the past five years he has been a freelance computer consultant, on the brink of the next big thing!