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Tim Skelly died last march (2020).....
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June 23, 2020, 04:39:28 PM »
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Sorry....pretty late to discover this but last march (2020) Tim Skelly died.
https://twitter.com/SeamusBlackley/status/1234661993740525581
Tim designed the bulk of Cinematronics/Vectorbeam games and Reactor, Insector and Screwloose at Gottlieb.
I still love video game history so sad to learn of his death, he was definitely one of the pioneers ! He was also the first one to get his name on-screen on any arcade videogame (Reactor).
Quite interesting story he wrote here:
https://dadgum.com/giantlist/archive/cinematronics.html
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Andreas_AUT
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Re: Tim Skelly died last march (2020).....
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June 24, 2020, 09:38:26 AM »
interesting article
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Luigi
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Re: Tim Skelly died last march (2020).....
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June 26, 2020, 08:30:10 AM »
Well, our heros are getting into an age where it can happen each day
Thanks for sharing...I will read it later to a cup of coffee
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Level42
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Re: Tim Skelly died last march (2020).....
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June 29, 2020, 09:45:39 PM »
Very true but he didn't really was that old.....IMHO....
I loved Reactor on the 2600..... I don't remember ever playing the arcade machine.
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Luigi
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Re: Tim Skelly died last march (2020).....
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July 02, 2020, 07:45:55 AM »
According to Wikipedia he was born 1951...well, not an age you want to leave this place
I just read that he wrote Rip Off
....one of my favourite coop games!! We have Take Off, a clone, but unfortunateley it doesn't work due to pcb damage
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