> > Incidentally, this guy got a response: > > Nice. I wonder why the hoaxster named Rotberg. Given that it's supposed to be like > Tempest you'd think Dave Theurer would've been a more plausible name-drop. (Trivia: > Theurer was later responsible for pretty much the entire existence of SNES/Genesis > and 256-color PC VGA games thanks to DeBabelizer).
Gut feeling is that back then Rotberg was getting name-dropped quite a bit (sometimes by me). I think 1998-99ish was when he sold off his old protos to people in the community (if you remember that). Also, the games he worked on were falling before MAMEDEV around that time too