WHO IS BOB DOBBS?

att isn’t quite sure why Chris Brewer, artist, technician and programmer best known for his work, decided to create an alternative version of , but it certainly raised a smile in the Gottlieb offices. In , the boulders on the first level became televisions, Prince Colwyn’s army now consisted of Girl Guides and Princess Lyssa is transformed into a coin-op cabinet. “It isn’t a cab,” Matt assures us, “to avoid the horror of infinite recursion. The Beast became Bob Dobbs, a deity of the Church Of The SubGenius, a parody religion that was growing fast in the early Eighties. My wife, Candi, was an early member. I actually put a 16x16 pixel image of Bob in the Atari 520ST operating system font a few years later.” Matt’s co-creator of , Chris Krubel, who sadly passed away in 2007, was also a member of the ‘church’.