{"id":869,"date":"2009-02-01T20:25:40","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T04:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/driph.com\/words\/?p=869"},"modified":"2009-02-01T20:25:40","modified_gmt":"2009-02-02T04:25:40","slug":"chat-with-tim-skelly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/2009\/02\/chat-with-tim-skelly\/","title":{"rendered":"Chat with Tim Skelly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rotheblog.com\/\">Jeff Rothe<\/a>, founder of the arcade collector&#8217;s site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coinopspace.com\">CoinOpSpace<\/a>, is kicking off <a href=\"http:\/\/classicarcades.ning.com\/events\/creator-chat-tim-skelly\">the first of a series<\/a> of developer open chat sessions this Wednesday (Feb 4th) from 6:30-7:30pm PST in the <a href=\"http:\/\/classicarcades.ning.com\/chat\">CoinOpSpace chat room<\/a>. This first session will be with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dadgum.com\/halcyon\/BOOK\/SKELLY.HTM\">Tim Skelly<\/a>, formerly of Cinematronics and Vectorbeam, and creator of such arcade releases as <strong>Warrior<\/strong> (arguably the first fighting game), <strong>Rip-Off<\/strong>, <strong>Armor Attack<\/strong>, <strong>Reactor<\/strong>, and the vector rarity <strong>War of the Worlds<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/classicarcades.ning.com\/events\/creator-chat-tim-skelly\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"870\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/2009\/02\/chat-with-tim-skelly\/timskelly_chatannounce\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/timskelly_chatannounce.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"500,190\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Tim Skelly at CoinOpSpace\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/timskelly_chatannounce-300x114.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/timskelly_chatannounce.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/timskelly_chatannounce.jpg\" alt=\"Tim Skelly at CoinOpSpace\" title=\"Tim Skelly at CoinOpSpace\" width=\"500\" height=\"190\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-870\" srcset=\"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/timskelly_chatannounce.jpg 500w, https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/timskelly_chatannounce-300x114.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you aren&#8217;t familiar with Tim&#8217;s work, Jeff has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rotheblog.com\/arcade\/coinopspace-arcade\/live-group-chat-event-at-coinopspacecom-tim-skelly\/\">posted a slew of additional information<\/a> covering his history in the industry, so check that out, make yourself a CoinOpSpace account, and drop by the chat on Wednesday night!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Rothe, founder of the arcade collector&#8217;s site CoinOpSpace, is kicking off the first of a series of developer open chat sessions this Wednesday (Feb 4th) from 6:30-7:30pm PST in the CoinOpSpace chat room. This first session will be with Tim Skelly, formerly of Cinematronics and Vectorbeam, and creator of such arcade releases as Warrior [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[45,39,54,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arcade","category-community","category-nostalgia","category-video-games"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=869"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":873,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions\/873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}