Episode 400: Eugene Jarvis
Pinball Profile
50 min
Summary
Eugene Jarvis on 50+ years innovating pinball and arcade gaming, from Atari to Raw Thrills.
Eugene Jarvis, legendary video game and pinball designer and CEO of Raw Thrills, shares his career spanning Atari, Williams, and arcade gaming on Pinball Profile 400th episode milestone. The conversation covers his early love of electromechanical pinball, his pioneering work on solid-state pinball at Atari alongside Steve Ritchie, innovations in sound design and synthesizers, the creation of Firepower and its multiball mechanics, and his transition to groundbreaking arcade video games like Defender that outsold Pac-Man.
The co-founder and President of Raw Thrills shares his stories of getting into gaming, his time with Steve Ritchie, Atari, Williams, and now Raw Thrills and their development of Pulp Fiction pinball. His innovations in programming and game designing for pinball and video games for nearly 50 years are legendary. Here is just some of his incredible story and how it has impacted gaming today.
In this episode
Airborne Avenger
Atari
Defender
Williams
F-14 Tomcat
Williams
Flash
Williams
Space Invaders
Bally
Superman
Atari
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