This is a great idea, but respectfully, if you're going to get traction you need to be the one instigating getting people to talk to you. Have a pitch, have an explicit ask, and be willing to put effort into making it happen.
replyFantastic idea though, you should do it.
There are a few of these floating around for older games, but the world needs more:
replyAra technica has a war stories feature on game development.
https://arstechnica.com/video/series/war-stories
For apple 2 games John Romero did a podcast. It’s decent but he seems to have stopped doing them.
https://appletimewarp.libsyn.com/ Or YouTube
Ted dabney experience has a lot of interesting interviews with older arcade game designers:
Sid Meier's Memoir! is exactly that, Sid Meier wrote a memoir which is indeed mostly war stories of his involvement in making games.
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