NOTE: At the time this episode was recorded, Comedy Roundtable was known as the BHHcast (pronounced "Bah"-cast), which is why you will hear references to the BHHcast, our listeners who we referred to as the Sheep, and our hosts who were referred to as the Shepherds. Enjoy a little bit of Comedy Roundtable history with this episode.

Sheep, hitch yourself to the fence post and get comfortable for this episode with video game designer and licensed therapist, Howard Scott Warshaw, author of Once Upon Atari - How I Made History By Killing an Industry, available now wherever books are sold (and in twenty-seven different locations worldwide where books are not sold).

Howard Scott Warshaw will tell you that he is the most famous person you've never heard of.  He was a video game pioneer and alleged video game company assassin.  Currently, he is a psychotherapist in Silicon Valley, serving many of same type of game designers that he was at Atari years ago.  Some kids, like your shepherd Bendall, were given Intellivision gaming systems as a kid, and other kids' parents loved them.  Those that actually received the Atari 2600 gaming system were no doubt delighted to play Howard Scott Warshaw designed games, such as Yars Revenge and Raiders of the Lost Ark. Maybe not so much with his infamous ET video game, ripe with pit falls (and not the Pitfall Harry variety), that some accuse (falsely) as the catalyst to the collapse of the video game industry

In this episode, you'll learn about Adam's potential addiction to Fortnite, the many posthumous travels of Atari illustrator Jerome Domurat and where best to sit when heckling at a funeral.  Prepare yourself for life advice, wonderful anecdotes and plenty of puns from Howard Scott Warshaw.  To learn more about him, visit https://newonceuponatari.hswarshaw.com/.

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