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Programmers Brad Stewart and Bob Smith were unable to fit the Atari VCS port into a 4 KB cartridge. It became the first game for the console to use bank switching, a technique that increases ROM size from 4 KB to 8 KB. [20] A port for the Atari 5200, identical to the Atari 8-bit version, was in development in 1982, but was not published. [21]
George Edward "Ed" Logg (born 1948 in Seattle) [3] is a retired American arcade video game designer, first employed at Atari, Inc. [4] and later at Atari Games. [5] He currently resides in San Jose, California. [6] He was educated at University of California, Berkeley and also attended Stanford University. [1] [2]
[1] Rains also served as Executive Producer for a large number of Atari coin-op games. An avid gamer, he wrote a popular online FAQ for the Atari coin-op game KLAX . He joined old compatriot video game designers in a new company called Innovative Leisure headed by Seamus Blackley in 2012 to design games for phones.
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ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — The 12 finalists for the World Video Game Hall of Fame this year draw from four decades of gaming, from Atari Asteroids, played on coin-fed consoles in arcades, to Guitar ...
Blasteroids is the third official sequel to the 1979 multidirectional shooter video game, Asteroids. It was developed by Atari Games and released in arcades in 1987. [3] Unlike the previous games, Blasteroids uses raster graphics instead of vector graphics, and has power-ups and a boss. The game was based in The United States.
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The Asteroids Deluxe arcade machine is a vector game, with graphics consisting entirely of lines drawn on a vector monitor, which Atari described as "QuadraScan".The key hardware consists of a 1.5 MHz MOS 6502A CPU, which executes the game program, and the Digital Vector Generator (DVG), the first vector processing circuitry developed by Atari.