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There was a time when video games were a one man process. You can read about one such programmer at the website that I maintain, The World Of Owen Rubin. Owen wrote a number of classic coin-operated arcade games while working at Atari and Sente.

I interviewed some classic game designers, including Al Alcorn, the engineer who worked on the coinop Pong for Atari (then Syzygy). You can read those here.

I also maintain former Atari coinop designer Owen Rubin's (Space Duel, Major Havoc) website. Yeah, I know the tables are screwed up on the pages in anything but IE. Call it my lack of knowing REAL html :)

Not completely on-topic, but interesting nevertheless...

There is a story and pictures about Kermit, the Grass Valley-designed (Grass Valley was the original Atari's research facility) robot that former Atari coin-op designer/programmer Owen Rubin rescued after it was abandoned. You can read the story and view the pictures here.

Not completely on-topic, but interesting nevertheless...

There is a story and pictures about Kermit, the Grass Valley-designed (Grass Valley was the original Atari's research facility) robot that former Atari coin-op designer/programmer Owen Rubin rescued after it was abandoned. You can read the story and view the pictures here.

Owen Rubin- creator of Atari coinops Major Havoc, Space Duel, and others.

Howard Delman- coinop hardware and software engineer. Designed the vector graphics hardware for Asteroids and Lunar Lander.

Mike Albaugh- coinop hardware and software engineer.

Ed Rotberg- programmer of Battlezone, Atari Baseball, and other coinops. Only a family page, I'm afraid.

Jed Margolin- hardware engineer, designed TONS of coinop hardware. LOTS of techie stuff on his page :)

And for the hell of it, Carol Shaw- programmer of early 2600 games (3D Tic Tac Toe) as well as River Raid for Activision.

I'm sure there are others, but those are the only ones I can think of at the moment.

Brian Deuel
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http://www.orubin.com