digitalpress
06-07-2003, 10:17 PM
I'm going to announce the industry legends we've confirmed attendance for at this year's Classic Gaming Expo at the Classic Gaming Expo site (http://www.cgexpo.com), but in this forum I'm going to detail them so you can take note of which games and items that you might want to bring along for signatures!
Alan Miller
Alan Miller is one of the early and enduring pioneers of interactive entertainment. He joined Atari in February 1977 and was one of the first four Atari 2600 game designers. At Atari, he designed the VCS games Surround, Hunt and Score (Concentration), Hangman (the first 4k byte game), and Basketball. In late 1978 and early 1979, he co-authored the operating system for the Atari 400/800/1200 computers with Dave Crane, Larry Kaplan, Gary Palmer, and Ian Shepard. His last project at Atari was Basketball for the Atari computer, one of the very first ROM games for the system.
In late 1979, he co-founded Activision with Dave Crane, Jim Levy, and Bob Whitehead. Activision was the first independent video game publisher. Activision rapidly grew to $159 million in revenue in 1983, its third year of sales, becoming the fastest growing company in U.S. venture capital history up to that time. It was eventually passed in this distinction by Lotus and Compaq. In the early years of Activision, Mr. Miller served as Vice President of Product Development and also designed several games for the Atari 2600 including: Checkers, Tennis, Ice Hockey, Starmaster, and Robot Tank.
In 1984, Mr. Miller co-founded Accolade with Bob Whitehead. During his ten years at Accolade, he designed only one game, Law of the West for the Commodore 64, and then devoted himself to management. He served initially as Vice President of Product Development and in a few years rose to Chairman and CEO. Accolade was purchased by the French publisher, Infogrames, in 1999.
Consumers around the world have purchased over $3 billion of entertainment software products from Mr. Miller's two companies.
http://www.cgexpo.com/bios/img/amiller.jpg
Alan Miller
Alan Miller is one of the early and enduring pioneers of interactive entertainment. He joined Atari in February 1977 and was one of the first four Atari 2600 game designers. At Atari, he designed the VCS games Surround, Hunt and Score (Concentration), Hangman (the first 4k byte game), and Basketball. In late 1978 and early 1979, he co-authored the operating system for the Atari 400/800/1200 computers with Dave Crane, Larry Kaplan, Gary Palmer, and Ian Shepard. His last project at Atari was Basketball for the Atari computer, one of the very first ROM games for the system.
In late 1979, he co-founded Activision with Dave Crane, Jim Levy, and Bob Whitehead. Activision was the first independent video game publisher. Activision rapidly grew to $159 million in revenue in 1983, its third year of sales, becoming the fastest growing company in U.S. venture capital history up to that time. It was eventually passed in this distinction by Lotus and Compaq. In the early years of Activision, Mr. Miller served as Vice President of Product Development and also designed several games for the Atari 2600 including: Checkers, Tennis, Ice Hockey, Starmaster, and Robot Tank.
In 1984, Mr. Miller co-founded Accolade with Bob Whitehead. During his ten years at Accolade, he designed only one game, Law of the West for the Commodore 64, and then devoted himself to management. He served initially as Vice President of Product Development and in a few years rose to Chairman and CEO. Accolade was purchased by the French publisher, Infogrames, in 1999.
Consumers around the world have purchased over $3 billion of entertainment software products from Mr. Miller's two companies.
http://www.cgexpo.com/bios/img/amiller.jpg