Robert Smith (Video Pinball, Dragonfire) at CGE!
Each day this week I will be announcing at least one new LEGEND who will appear at Classic Gaming Expo on August 9th and 10th, ending in a summarized update at the Classic Gaming Expo site.
You can view details on all of the confirmed legends who will be speaking, meeting, greeting, and signing autographs at this year's Classic Gaming Expo , but in this forum I'm going to provide some details about them. Take note of games and items that you might want to bring along for signatures!
Robert Smith
Mr. Bob Smith is a 20-year veteran of the electronic entertainment industry, and his repetoire of game titles is varied and star-studded. Smith's first foray into the world of games was with Seca, a 6K road racing game for the TRS-80 Computer that was distributed by Creative Computing in 1979. Following that success, he joined Atari, where his creation, Video Pinball, was a best-seller on the Atari VCS game system.
In 1982, Smith joined Imagic, history's second video game software publisher. There, he was responsible for several blockbuster games. Star Voyager, Riddle of the Sphinx, Dragonfire and Moonsweeper all were favorably received both by the gaming press and consumers alike. Not only were all of them immensely playable, Smith's games pushed the limits of what the VCS could do. In 1984, he was contracted by Parker Brothers to develop the Atari VCS version of Atari's coin-op hit Star Wars.
Smith then took his trade to Accolade. He was involved with WarpSpeed (Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis) and Charles Barkley Shut Up And Jam (I and II). He then left to join 3DO in 1998, where he was one of several programmers who worked on the hit game Army Men 3D for the company.
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. I SWEAR I will clear my calander for it next year and if anything lands on that date I will cancel it. I really want to come check this out! Be sure to have a perhaps Bigger and BETTER show next time (if its possible!)
