Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Atari 2600 is a home video game console developed and produced by Atari, Inc. Released in September 1977 as the Atari Video Computer System (Atari VCS), it popularized microprocessor-based hardware and games stored on swappable ROM cartridges, a format first used with the Fairchild Channel F in 1976.
Cyan Engineering was an American computer engineering company located in Grass Valley, California. [1] [2] It was founded by Steve Mayer and Larry Emmons.The company was purchased in 1973 by Atari, Inc. and developed the Atari Video Computer System console, which was released in 1977 and renamed the Atari 2600 in November 1982.
He is most notable as the developer of the Atari 2600's Adventure and as a founder of The Learning Company, [1] where he designed Rocky's Boots [2] and Robot Odyssey. More recently he has worked on virtual reality projects. Robinett graduated in 1974 with a B.A. from Rice University, [1] with a major in "Computer Applications to Language and Art".
Crane and Miller formed Activision, the first company to independently publish games for the Atari 2600. The company grew to be massively successful, with Crane's game Pitfall! (1982) being one the biggest sellers for the company. [1] Crane continued to work for Activision making several games for the Atari 2600 and later the Commodore 64.
Rob Fulop is an American game programmer who created two of the Atari 2600's biggest hits: the port of arcade game Missile Command and 1982's Demon Attack, which won Electronic Games' Game of the Year award. While at Atari, Fulop also ported Night Driver to the 2600 and Space Invaders to the Atari 8-bit computers.
Immediately after earning her Master's degree in 1978, Shaw was hired at Atari, Inc. to work on games for the Atari VCS (later called the 2600) with the title of Microprocessor Software Engineer. [2] Her first project was Polo , a promotional tie-in for the Ralph Lauren cologne. [ 3 ]
The Atari home video game system took the late1970s and early 1980s by storm, complete with faux wood paneling and a classic joystick with a big red button. Rival systems eventually surpassed the ...
Whitehead worked for Atari, Inc. in the late 1970s developing games for the Video Computer System (later renamed to the Atari 2600). He developed several games, including a VCS implementation of chess , a feat many other programmers considered impossible for the system. [ 1 ]