When Roger Hector graduated from the ArtCenter College Of Design in Los Angeles, he was all set to design cars for a living. Then the oil crisis hit, the automobile industry crashed and he took a sharp turn into the arcade business, first at Atari and then Sente, which he jointly founded. His skills as an artist, designer and later as a manager, saw him enjoy a storied career at some of the best-known videogame companies of the last five decades and he’s still making games today for the educational charity The Singleton Foundation. “Last year, I went to reunions for both Atari and Sega,” smiles Roger. “I had a lot of fun meeting up again with Nolan Bushnell, Tom Kalinske and all these people I hadn’t seen for a long time that were involved back in our day. Everyone had fun… but then everyone enjoyed that period of time.”
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