The guy in the Prima Donna shirt

[Mayhem]

If you need to know who I mean, see here :)

http://www.mayhem64.co.uk/cge2k4/cge2k4kk.jpg

Can anyone remember his full name? I got his signature but I can't make it all out. Dave C is the most I can fathom from my event guide!

Need the name for the event report I'm writing... if I think of anything else I forgot, I'll post it here...

[tealfan1]

Yeah, my signature is a little hard to read. This one should be more legible...

[Mayhem]

I had a damn good look on Google for credits for your games before posting here, and they don't appear to be listed! Anyhow, welcome to DP :)

[tealfan1]

>I had a damn good look on Google for credits for your games before
>posting here, and they don't appear to be listed!

At one point I had a credit on one online website -- something like The Big Book Of Classic Games Programmers -- for Superman III, but that website either disappeared or they changed the format and I got dropped somehow.

Finding out any information on the 400/800 game developers is very difficult, because we labored in relative obscurity. The coinop and 2600/5200/7800 developers have received most of the notoriety and/or fame over the years, which makes sense because of the huge numbers of people who've played the games in those formats.

In fact, I think most people would be hard-pressed to name more than a couple of the home computer game developers at Atari: Doug "Star Raiders" Neubauer, Chris "Energy Czar, Scram!, Eastern Front, Excalibur" Crawford, and perhaps Landon "Donkey Kong" Dyer. I even have trouble remembering who was working on what, and most of them were just down the hall from me...

To see my point, all of the following 400/800 games were developed in the Home Computer Division...or in the Atari Games Division, after a 1983 reorg put the coinop/home computer/home videogame developers together again. Can you name any of the developers of these released, unreleased, or only partially-coded games?

ET Phone Home! (a 3-person team; I was the junior member)
Superman III (another 3-person team; I was the primary developer)
Cloak & Dagger (I took it over after a month, but who started it?)
Jungle Hunt
Ms. Pac-Man
Crystal Castles
Sinistar
Qix
Centipede
Dig-Dug (the first released version, before the 5200 was converted to the
400/800 and re-released)
Robotron 2084
Major Havoc
Video Puzzle (I think that's what it was called)
RealSports Tennis (5200 conversion)

and, perhaps the most obscure of all:

Worms Of Doom From Outer Space

I'm sure I'm forgetting a bunch, but those are the ones that came immediately to mind.

[tealfan1]

Oh, BTW, if you do the following Google search and wade through the coinop links, you'll see a couple of references to me...mostly an email I sent perhaps 10 years ago to a former Apple coworker which has been reposted on a number of websites:

Atari "Cloak and Dagger"

And if you go to this link, I believe the second photo of the person pointing shows the side of my head:

http://www.atarimagazines.com/v2n4/etgame.html

(I'd forgotten I'd even been involved in this photo shoot for Inside Atari magazine until someone pointed me to the webpage a year or so ago...)

[tealfan1]

>Ms. Pac-Man

Make that Super PacMan: I have no clue who did the 400/800 Ms. PacMan.

Like I said, my memories are fading even though these folks were just down the hall...