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Joseph Warren Robinett Jr. (born December 25, 1951) [1] is an American video game designer. 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.
The game utilizes a video tape that runs constantly while users play the board game portion. Events on the video tape combine with board game play to determine whether users win or lose the game. The video itself was directed by Les Landau and contains original footage filmed on the actual Star Trek: The Next Generation sets at Paramount Studios.
The Video Challenger (Japanese: ビデオチャレンジャー, Hepburn: Bideocharenjā) is a home video game console that was produced by Takara (now Takara Tomy) in 1987. It uses special VHS tape-based footage that allows players to shoot targets with a ray gun .
The history of video games began in the 1950s and 1960s as computer scientists began designing simple games and simulations on minicomputers and mainframes. Spacewar! was developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) student hobbyists in 1962 as one of the first such games on a video display. The first consumer video game hardware ...
The first two games he worked on were the original Street Fighter and Mega Man in 1987. He was then a character designer and planner of the Mega Man series during the NES and Super NES era. [2] For Mega Man X, he created and designed the character Zero. [3] Inafune then moved onto the position of producer with his first title being Mega Man 8 ...
Alexey Leonidovich Pajitnov [a] (born April 16, 1955) [1] is a Russian and American computer engineer and video game designer. [2] He is best known for creating, designing, and developing Tetris in 1985 while working at the Dorodnitsyn Computing Centre under the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union (now the Russian Academy of Sciences). [3]
The history of video games spans a period of time between the invention of the first electronic games and today, covering many inventions and developments. Video gaming reached mainstream popularity in the 1970s and 1980s, when arcade video games, gaming consoles and home computer games were introduced to the general public.
Henk Rogers is a Dutch Indonesian video game designer and entrepreneur. [3] [4] He is known for producing Japan's first major turn-based role-playing video game The Black Onyx, securing the rights to distribute the Russian puzzle video game Tetris on video game consoles where the game found popularity, and as the founder of Bullet-Proof Software (later called Blue Planet Software) and The ...