Meet Your Host

My name is John Dondzila. (I'm the one on the left). When I'm not
writing video games I work as a Technician servicing arcade games and
pretty much anything else amusement related (including rides). I used
to collect arcade machines, however I sold off my collection because I
just didn't have enough time (or space !) to dedicate to the hobby.

I've been around video games since 1976 and I could ramble on for
hours about my adventures in the commercial and home gaming world.
I like them all, but I'll always be most fond of the classics.



The above picture is from my visit to the 2008 IAAPA show in Florida.
I'm looking forward to this year's show which is being moved to Las
Vegas, my home away from home (if you go there make sure you stop in
to see the Pinball Hall of Fame).

BACK BEFORE THEY WERE CLASSICS

Even back in my youthful days I enjoyed programming computers.
While I spent many hours in Radio Shack playing with their TRS-80's,
the first computer which I owned was a Commodore VIC-20. I wrote many
games and a small California company picked up 3 of my games and
marketed them in a package called SPACE PAK. While I had a 2 year
royalty contract, I only saw money for about 6 months but it was pretty
good money and kept me in Scotch and Scones for awhile. I later published
a type in program for the VIC-20 called COLORBOT. This was featured in
COMPUTE! magazine as seen in the above pictures. I'm not sure what became
of the others.