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Eugene Jarvis to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award

Posted by Zonk on from the gaming-roots dept.

Eugene Jarvis, creator of games such as Defender, NARC, and Smash T.V., is set to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at the upcoming Game Developer's Conference in March. From the article: "The IGDA's award for Lifetime Achievement is considered the game industry's most prestigious award. Recipients are selected by the Choice Awards Advisory Board, comprised of a diverse set of developers from across the globe. Past recipients of this award include: Mark Cerny, Gunpei Yokoi (posthumas), Yuji Naka and Will Wright." Mr. Jarvis' achievements have been discussed previously on Slashdot Games.

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  1. Re:Smash TV by DrunkenTerror · · Score: 2, Informative

    You could move in 8 directions, and shoot in 8 directions independantly, which was the first time I ever remember movement and fire-control being independant for an overhead shooter. Before Smash TV, it was Icari Warriors-style, where direction-of-movement and direction-of-fire were always bound together.

  2. Eugene Jarvis did not create Smash TV by grahamwest · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Mark Turmell created Smash TV as his first game at Williams as an homage to Robotron (Robotron and Defender were Vid Kidz games, created by Eugene Jarvis and Larry DeMar). To this day Mark and Eugene are two of the best Robotron players I've ever met.

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  3. Lifetime awards by xgamer04 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You know, they're going to need a lot of years to give out these Lifetime Achievement awards... (Miyamoto, Molyneaux, Kojima, Meier...)

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  4. Re:Smash TV so much rocked.... er, still does by MBCook · · Score: 3, Interesting
    I REALLY wish they would remake that game.

    First of all, you could up the graphics. With the number of polygons that the next-gen consoles (PS3, XBox2, Revololution) should be able to support, it could look BEATIFUL. Second, you could put in four player support, which would really be great. And best of all with the dual analog sticks on most controllers you could controll the characters perfectly (shoot/move in 360 directions, not 8).

    BIG money. BIG prizes. I LOVE IT!

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  5. Re:Smash TV by DrunkenTerror · · Score: 2, Funny

    I was thinking of the Nintendo version. My appologies, I didn't have very many quarters back then. I'll just STFU now.