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For those not familiar: in the quote below, each letter of the alphabet (English, 26 letter) has been replaced with another letter. The punctuation is retained to make things relatively easy.

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For the first person that can PM me with all:

1) The actual quote
2) The name of the person that made it
3) The game he/she was referring to

I have a Golden Era Game of the Week t-shirt.



Make the first answer count, no second chances if you are wrong.

If you already have a shirt on the way, you are not eligible for another, but of course you are welcome to play for fun.

I've posted this on two forums, same person can't win on both.

Please don't post answers in this thread until we have a winner.

The cryptogram was trivially simple, but people are having a little more trouble guessing the person and game than I expected.

If it helps any, it is from an interview in a magazine from 1982. It is available on the web, but a search engine won't find the text as it is stored as a scanned image.

I can guess what scans you're talking about...

Excellent "videogame related challenges" John!
However... one great problem... when I will have enough time TO PLAY game??? You are doing me lost the little time I had to play games... trying to solve your puzzles

BeeJay finally claims the prize.

A lot of wrong guesses on the game, and especially on the person.

I'll post the correct answers later.

...... and no, I didn't find the scans, just took a lucky guess.

Finally giving up on the TG forum.

The quote was:

I DON'T KNOW OF ANOTHER GAME THAT GIVES YOU A CHANCE TO RETRIEVE YOUR MAN AFTER THE ENEMY HAS GOTTEN HIM. PLUS WHICH, THE MEN ARE YOUR FRIENDS. IN MOST VIDEO WORLDS THE PLAYER DOESN'T HAVE A FRIEND. IT'S LONELY.

Think about it.

RETRIEVE YOUR MAN AFTER THE ENEMY HAS GOTTEN HIM

THE MEN ARE YOUR FRIENDS

Now, what games allow you get get back "your man" after the enemy has gotten him? A few people said Galaga, and indeed you can get your ship back after one of the aliens has captured it, but it's not a "man", it's a ship. And what "men are your friends" in Galaga?

In King and Balloon there is a man (the king) you can rescue by shooting the balloons that are carrying him away, but he's just one man...no men.

Stratovox has people that can be rescued I think, but who would you interview about Stratovox? And is there a more well-known game that has men you can rescue from alien abduction? Yep.

Defender.

Those little guys that you are defending are humanoids (men.) Ten of them. When you shoot a lander lifting one of them away he drops and you must catch him or if he falls more than a small height he will die. When all ten men are gone, all landers are mutants, and you are in deep doo-doo.

A few people got Defender, but guessed the wrong person. Some said Ned Troide, who held a record on the game long ago, and one said the name of some kid mentioned in Time Magazine that marathoned the game, whose name I can't even remember. (I had to look it up.)

How about the guy that created it, Eugene Jarvis. He also designed Stargate, Robotron, and went on to form his own design company, Vid Kidz. The interview in question was part of a feature on videogames that Playboy Magazine did in 1982. The piece on Jarvis was titled "What Sort of Man Invents Defender?"

http://atari.vg-network.com/articles/pb2.html

Well done, BeeJay.

Beejay knows hes playb, eh videogames

I figured that out pretty quick as well, but I couldn't get the person who made the quote so didn't bother guessing.