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Defender 2000 programmer Jeff Minter pictured in 2007. Defender 2000 is an update of Eugene Jarvis' arcade game Defender (1981). [1] [14] In 1994, Atari Corporation and Williams Entertainment announced a joint venture to remake popular arcade games on the Atari Jaguar and PC, including Defender, Joust, and Robotron, with Atari responsible for the Jaguar versions.
Eugene Peyton Jarvis is an American game designer and video game programmer, known for producing pinball machines for Williams Electronics and video games for Atari.Most notable among his works are the seminal arcade video games Defender and Robotron: 2084 in the early 1980s, and the Cruis'n series of racing games for Nintendo in the 1990s.
In 2007, IGN listed Eugene Jarvis as a top game designer whose titles (Defender, Robotron: 2084 and Smash TV) have influenced the video game industry. [53] Barton and Loguidice stated that the game helped establish Williams and Jarvis as key figures in the arcade game industry. [9] Sellers echoed similar comments. [7]
The Mi2, also branded as PDC Touch, is a handheld game console developed and created by Dutch company Planet Interactive in Benelux and branded as Mi2.The Chinese manufacturer Conny Technology and the French manufacturer Videojet branded it as PDC Touch Media (an officially shortened name for Pocket Dream Console Touch) in France, Germany, Spain, Portugal and the UK.
With more than 101 million units sold, the Nintendo Wii is the best-selling home video game console in the seventh generation. The release of the Xbox 360 began the seventh generation. Video game consoles had become an important part of the global IT infrastructure by the mid-2000s. It was estimated that video game consoles represented 25% of ...
The game received early praise from arcade operators as it exceeded earnings expectations during testing. [20] On June 16, 2021, Raw Thrills announced a port for its arcade game Cruis'n Blast, the latest installment in the Cruis'n video game series for the Nintendo Switch system. It marks the company's first console game, and its first port to ...
The Dutch Fork running back said he is down to Clemson and Virginia Tech after decommitting from JMU
Narc (stylized as NARC) is a 1988 run and gun arcade video game designed by Eugene Jarvis for Williams Electronics and programmed by George Petro, [1] Todd Allen, and Eugene Jarvis, with art by Jack Haeger, John Newcomer, and Lin Young. It was one of the first ultra-violent video games and a frequent target of parental criticism of the video ...