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| The Game *Instructions Other Versions *Avalanche *5200 *PC *Playstation *Keychain *Super Nes Programmer *Larry Kaplan * *Larry's Favorites Designer *David Crane Pictures Links Drop me a line |
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| David Crane David Crane is one of the most successful designers of entertainment software in the world. His award winning video games, led by Pitfall!, Ghostbusters, A Boy and His Blob, and Amazing Tennis are acknowledged as some of the most innovative and popular in the interactive entertainment industry. Crane, a founder of Activision in 1979, has consistently produced superb products, as evidenced by his worldwide sales of over 10 million games and wholsale revenues near 200 million dollars. Pitfall! maintained the top slot on the Billboard charts for 64 weeks and was named Video Game of the Year in 1982. Besides selling millions of copies worldwide, it spawned a Saturday morning television cartoon and numerous other spinoffs. Pitfall II: Lost Caverns, was also the number one rated game in the country for over six months and won the 1984 Golden Floppy award for Best Game and the Video Adventure Game of the Year award for 1984 from Electronis Games. In addition to a variety of custom development systems, Crane has designed two integrated circuits for video game use - The Display Processor Chip or DPC, which was awarded a patent for its unique video memory system, and a chip which offered the most innovative method of bank selecting in the industry. But most importantly, at least to this page, he designed the overall look of Kaboom. Originally, the game was going to be an Avalanche-style game. David Crane gave this game more appeal by adding bombs (instead of rocks) and of course, The Mad Bomber! David deserves the credit for making the game look good. The true magic behind Kaboom, however, comes from the amazing programming. Without the Zen-effect, it wouldn't be a great game. The team-up of these two classic programmers putting their incredible talents together made Kaboom one of, if not THE BEST Atari 2600 game. |
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