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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 .
The Learning Company was founded in 8 May 1980 by Ann McCormick; Leslie Grimm; Teri Perl; and Warren Robinett, a former Atari, Inc. employee who had programmed the game Adventure. [2] They saw the Apple II as an opportunity to teach young children concepts of math, reading, science, problem-solving, and thinking skills.
The people in this list already have Wikipedia entries, and as such did significant design for notable computer games, console games, or arcade games. It does not include people in managerial roles (which often includes titles like "Producer" or "Development Director") or people who developed a concept without doing actual design work on the ...
Adventure is a 1980 action-adventure game developed by Warren Robinett and published by Atari, Inc. for the Atari Video Computer System (later renamed Atari 2600).The player controls a square avatar whose quest is to explore an open-ended environment to find a magical chalice and return it to the golden castle.
BASIC Programming is an Atari Video Computer System (later called the Atari 2600) cartridge that teaches simple computer programming using a dialect of BASIC.Written by Warren Robinett and released by Atari, Inc. in 1979, this BASIC interpreter is one of a few non-game cartridges for the console.
Warren Robinett: March 1980: Contains first well-known Easter egg, containing the designer's name. Air-Sea Battle: Target Fun: Larry Kaplan: September 1977: One of the nine Atari 2600 launch games. Alpha Beam with Ernie - Michael Callahan (programmer), Preston Stuart (graphics) November 1983: Co-developed by Children's Computer Workshop ...
Stephen Robinett (1941–2004), American writer; Thomas Robinett (born 1949), American politician, member of the Kansas House of Representatives; Warren Robinett (born 1951), American video game designer; Florence M. Voegelin (1927–1989), also known as Florence M. Robinett, American anthropologist and linguist
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