In accordance with Theurer’s Law - named after Missile Command and Tempest programmer Dave Theurer, which states that every programmer’s first game will be a relative failure - Ed Rotberg’s first game for Atari, Baseball, didn’t exactly score a home run. However his sophomore title, 1981’s Battlezone, with its distinctive green XY monitor graphics and unique periscope-adorned cabinet is rightly regarded as one of Atari’s finest releases of the coin-op videogame Golden Age. You’ll also learn about Battlezone variants, such as the well-documented but still fascinating development of the Bradley Trainer (a version of the game adapted for military training purposes) and a unique Stereoscopic Battlezone that never left the lab.
TDE EP37 - Jersey Jack Pinball Founder Jack Guarnieri
TDE EP36 - Strong Museum Assistant VP Jeremy Saucier
TDE EP35 - Atari Inc Coin-Op Engineer Jeff Bell
TDE EP34 - Atari Pong Creator Allan Alcorn
TDE EP33 - Atari Inc Designer and R&D Manager Roger Hector
TDE EP32 - Eugene Jarvis - Part 2
TDE EP32 - Eugene Jarvis - Part 1
TDE EP31 - Arcade Britannia author Dr Alan Meades
TDE EP30 - Atari Engineer Dave Sherman
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TDE EP29 - Crystal Castles programmer Franz Lanzinger
TDE EP28 - Food Fight programmer Jonathan Hurd
TDE EP27 - Bally Midway graphic artist Paul Niemeyer
TDE EP26 - Twin Galaxies founder Walter Day
TDE EP25 - Centuri coder Lee Feuling
TDE EP24 - Death Race creator Howell Ivy
TDE EP23 - Atari graphic designer Evelyn Seto
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