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  <title>ANTIC Interview 353 - Dennis Koble: APX Avalanche, Imagic</title>
  <description>Dennis Koble: APX Avalanche, Imagic &amp;amp;nbsp; Dennis Koble was an early Atari employee, where we would become manager of the computer and consumer divisions. He designed Atari's &amp;quot;Touch Me&amp;quot; handheld electronic game. He also wrote three programs that were published by Atari Program Exchange: Avalanche, an adaption of the coin-op game which he also created; and the text adventure games Chinese Puzzle and Sultan's Palace.&amp;amp;nbsp; &amp;amp;nbsp; He was at Atari for about 4 1/2 years before leaving to co-found the video game publisher Imagic. There, he was perhaps best known for creating &amp;quot;Atlantis&amp;quot; for the Atari 2600 (which we don't actually talk about in this interview.) &amp;amp;nbsp; This interview took place on May 15, 2018.&amp;amp;nbsp;A video version of this interview is available. &amp;amp;nbsp; &amp;quot;We had to show our best stuff. And we wanted to show technological tricks that we figured the Activision guys hadn't seen before. I don't know if they felt that rivalry toward us at that point, but it became a rivalry a little later, it really did.&amp;quot;&amp;amp;nbsp; &amp;amp;nbsp;  Video version of this interview &amp;amp;nbsp;  AtariMania's list of Dennis' games &amp;amp;nbsp;  2017 ataricompendium.com interview with Dennis &amp;amp;nbsp;  Dale Yocum interview &amp;amp;nbsp;  Lee Actor interview &amp;amp;nbsp;  Bob Smith interview &amp;amp;nbsp;  Rawson Stovall interview </description>
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