Scene World – The C64 NTSC/PAL Disk Magazine

Video interview with Frank Erstling (English version)

Frank Erstling is the founder and head of the leading German print magazine for retro gaming and retro computing- RETURN. Enjoy our talk with him - this time in english!

Posted by Nafcom on Dec 29, 2022 // Read more »

Video interview with Frank Erstling (German version)

Let's take another look into the archives and this time we're happy to have Frank Erstling! Frank is not only the founder and publisher of RETURN, Germany's most popular print magazine for retro gaming and computing since 2009, but also a passionate collector of games, consoles and homecomputers. It's all about 'Faszination klassische Computer und Konsolen'. : ) (German version, English version here).

Posted by Nafcom on Feb 11, 2022 // Read more »

Video Interview with Andreas Garbe

It's time for a look into our archives and this time we're happy to welcome Andreas Garbe.Andreas is an acclaimed videogame journalist working for the german public sector television network ZDF and you also might know him from 3sat Kulturzeit.

Posted by Nafcom on Feb 05, 2022 // Read more »

Video Interview with Andreas Escher

It's time for a look into our archives. - a talk with Andreas Escher (Rainbow Arts): Working since the 80s in the German game industry, he's a pioneering graphic artist responsible for C64 gems like Katakis or Turrican and many more on various home computers and consoles of that era. Get ready for some insights and stories about his time at Rainbow Arts... Enjoy!

Posted by Nafcom on Jan 30, 2022 // Read more »

Video Interview with Tommy Tallarico

It's time for another bit of Scene World history - a talk with Tommy Tallarico: He is not only one of the most prolific game music composers of all time (think about Earthworm Jim, MDK, The Terminator, Aladdin...) but also CEO of Intellivision and a celebrated live musician with his very own worldwide concert tour VideoGamesLive. Enjoy!

Posted by Nafcom on Jun 10, 2021 // Read more »

Video Interview with John Kellas

John Kellas was a consultant and director for many British software companies in the 80s and 90s like Mastertronic, GT Interactive or Rushware. In this interview, he talks about his career in the German subsidiaries of these companies. Learn more about some pretty interesting gaming industry insights like for example the first game compilation for the Sony Playstation...

Posted by Nafcom on Apr 04, 2021 // Read more »

Audio Interview with Gary Penn

A historic interview with Gary Penn, a video games industry veteran and former games reviewer for Zzap!64. Fun fact: The first Grand Theft Auto game would have been ended up cancelled without his efforts as a creative director at DMA Design (later Rockstar Games). Enjoy!

Posted by Nafcom on Mar 28, 2021 // Read more »

Video Interview with Stello Doussis

Stello Doussis is a veteran graphic designer, coder and composer, mostly recognized for for the cool soundtrack of Game Boy Color games such as "Happy Hippo" for the Kinder Surprise brand! In this interview he talks about how he started with is love for game music, learned how to code, do graphics and finally was able to turn his love for music into an employment to make a living. He also covers his steps working on music on the C64 for the cracking and demoscene. Learn more about the process of creating Game Boy (Color) music and how he tried to squeeze more out of the system's sound hardware than what he used to hear before. Also he shares stories about working on games for the pre-smartphone mobile phones (J2ME devices) with tiny screens and crude possibilities! A journey not to be missed!

Posted by Nafcom on Oct 24, 2020 // Read more »

Video interview with Rudolf Stember

Rudolf is a video game composer veteran who worked also for Rainbow Arts and later Factor 5 and has been known for working on games like the Star Wars franchise, the strategy puzzler Logical or converting the Money Island soundtrack from the PC to the Amiga together with Chris Huelsbeck. In this interview we go back in time and he shares many insight and stories of his time he started out as a composer.

Posted by Nafcom on Oct 03, 2020 // Read more »

Video interview with Randy Farmer

Randy farmer is a pioneer in online gaming, he created the first MMOPRG in 1986 aka Habitat while he worked for Lucasfilm Games (Later Lucas Arts), he has worked for Yahoo, Google, worked on Second Life and a lot more. Join us as we go through the history of time, it will be an entertaining ride!

Posted by Nafcom on Sep 10, 2020 // Read more »

Video Interview with Holger "Harvey Dent" Weßling

Holger tells us about his time publishing and writing books and software for the Amiga under Data Becker and later on other publishing houses. He talks a lot about the atmospheres and little stories and background about the times of computer book / software publishing in the 90s and throughout his book publishing today including the books for the C64 Mini and Maxi

Posted by Nafcom on May 24, 2020 // Read more »

Video interview with Birgit "Biggi" Lechtermann (English version)

Birgit "Bigi" Lechtermann is a German TV moderator, book writer and media trainer which talks in this interview about pioneering in television with computer shows aimed towards the youth with German computer shows "Computer Corner" & "Technik-2000" which she did back in the 80s and 90s with journalist Klaus Moeller) in which she brought the home computers closer and more appealing to the masses including other tech related topics in the follow-up TV show Technik-2000" later on.

Posted by Nafcom on Dec 05, 2019 // Read more »

Video interview with Birgit "Biggi" Lechtermann (German version)

Birgit "Bigi" Lechtermann is a German TV moderator, book writer and media trainer which talks in this interview about pioneering in television with computer shows aimed towards the youth with German computer shows "Computer Corner" & "Technik-2000" which she did back in the 80s and 90s with journalist Klaus Moeller) in which she brought the home computers closer and more appealing to the masses including other tech related topics in the follow-up TV show Technik-2000" later on.

Posted by Nafcom on Nov 25, 2019 // Read more »

Video Interview with Roman Werner

Roman Werner is an Amiga developer who developed games for the Amiga and participated with his music to many Amiga games back in the days! Among those are his jump'n'run Traps 'n' Treasures, music for Leonardo on the Amiga and the Eliminator intro music on the Amiga. He also created the one button controller and type-in BASIC game developer! Not only he talks about how it was to develop games for Starbyte under contract, but also how it was to work on the single-button collection with the Polish Komoda & Amiga + magazine! Enjoy this deep ride into the past of software development of the 80s and 90s and what kind of retro related activities he dig up ever since! Last but not least, funny stories of the early days of the cracking scene and how the first Amiga virus was invented are included in this 2 hour history ride!

Posted by Nafcom on Nov 02, 2019 // Read more »

Video interview with Wolfgang Back (English version)

Wolfgang Back is a computer journalist pioneer since the first hour and of the birth of computers.

Posted by Nafcom on Jul 23, 2019 // Read more »

Video Interview with Paco Portalo

Paco Portalo is a computer games pioneer from Spain when he and his friends create the computer game "Bugaboo (The Flea)" in 1983 under "Indescomp". Originally done for the ZX Spectrum as this one was just released in UK. The game was published by Quicksilva and caused a kickstart of the "Golden Era of Spanish Software" in which Spain became the second largest 8 bit computer entertainment software producer in Europe (just behind UK). The game was also the first game to ever use animated non-interactive scenes (later coined as "cutscenes" by game designer Ron Gilbert in 1987 when this technique gained wide audience awareness due to his point & click adventure "Maniac Mansion") In this interview, Paco Portalo also talks about the beginning of computing in Spain, correcting Spanish computer game history in 2009 by writing the book Bugaboo, un hito en la Historia del software español by Francisco Portalo Calero.

Posted by Nafcom on Apr 21, 2019 // Read more »

Video Interview with John Mack

John Mack is the designer and graphic artist of the 1983 edutainment program "Operation:Frog" by Scholastic. It was the first of its kind in which you were tasked to either dissect or put together a frog. Learn all about this program and how it came to be.

Posted by Nafcom on Apr 19, 2019 // Read more »

Video interview with Christian Spanik -Part 5 - Working at Data Becker

In part 5 of our interview series with computer media pioneer Christian Spanik, we talk about how it was to work for Data Becker.

Posted by Nafcom on Mar 08, 2019 // Read more »

Video interview with John Romero

John Romero is one of the most famous computer game designers, most known for his 3D Ego shooters like Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, Quake, and the jump'n'run series "Commander Keen"

Posted by Nafcom on Dec 27, 2018 // Read more »

Video interview with John F. Kutcher

John F. Kutcher is one of the early C64 programmers programming games like Space Taxi and Solo Flight 2nd Edition in the early 80s. Space Taxi especially celebrating a huge recognition by its unique gameplay and accurate physics at that time as well as digitized speech!

Posted by Nafcom on Aug 05, 2018 // Read more »

Video interview with Mike Clarke

Mike Clarke is a famous composer who former worked for Psygnosis. Among his most known works are the musics for Last Ninja 2 on the Amiga or e.g. Lemmings 2 on the SNES. He speaks about his experience of doing "a little bit of everything" as a composer, coder, manager, etc from the C64 throughout the Amiga, SNES, etc.

Posted by Nafcom on Jul 28, 2018 // Read more »

Video interview with Christian Spanik & Hannes Ruegheimer - Part 4 - Hannes Ruegheimer & user courses

We talk to Christian Spanik & Hannes Ruegheimer about pioneering in the journalistic IT field. This time talking about user courses and Hannes imself and his involvement.

Posted by Nafcom on Feb 10, 2018 // Read more »

Video interview with John Cioffi

john Cioffi is the inventor of the DSL technology, he and his team invented what lead to broadband internet all over the world.

Posted by Nafcom on Dec 10, 2017 // Read more »

Video interview with Christian Spanik - Part 3 - Pioneering in Web TV

How it was to pioneer in German web.TV.

Posted by Nafcom on Oct 21, 2017 // Read more »

Audio interview with Dr. Peter Kittel

Dr. Peter Kittel worked for Commodore in Germany back in the day

Posted by Nafcom on Oct 19, 2017 // Read more »

video interview with Christian Spanik - Part 2 - Writing scripts for IT TV shows

Christian Spanik Interview for Scene World Magazine - Part 2 - How he made the jump from writing books to write scripts for IT TV shows.

Posted by Nafcom on Apr 27, 2017 // Read more »

Video interview with Christian Spanik - Part 1 - Writing books

Christian Spanik Interview for Scene World Magazine - Part 1 - How I got into journalism and writing books

Posted by Nafcom on Mar 17, 2017 // Read more »

(German) video interview with Wolfgang Back

Wolfgang Back is a computer journalist pioneer since the first hour and of the birth of computers.

Posted by Nafcom on Mar 17, 2017 // Read more »

Video Interview with John Chowning

John Chowning is the pioneer in FM synthesis, which he discovered as a musician by ear

Posted by Nafcom on Feb 19, 2017 // Read more »

Video Interview with Forrest S. Mozer

Ever wondered who this voice is you hear in the speech of "Ghostbusters" for the C64 and Atari?

Posted by Nafcom on Nov 08, 2016 // Read more »

Video Interview with Nolan Bushnell

Nolan Bushnell is an American engineer and pioneer and founded Atari Inc and is considered one of the founding fathers of the video game industry. He also did the co-op version with scoring and sound called PONG for the arcades.

Posted by Nafcom on Sep 19, 2016 // Read more »

Video Interview with Friedhelm Hillebrand

Friedhelm Hillebrand is the inventor of the SMS. In 1984 he had the idea of making cheap and fast text transmission over the cellular network possible.

Posted by Nafcom on Apr 30, 2016 // Read more »

Video Interview with David Pleasance

Due to massive delays and the new issue of Scene World Magazine being out very soon, we couldn't pack the transcription in , but decided to release our interview with former Commodore UK employee David John Pleasance nevertheless!

Posted by Nafcom on Apr 25, 2016 // Read more »

Video Interview with Hans Ippisch