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Plus, I was a math and science whiz from my first introduction to the subjects.
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Science
Introduction
Math
Math And Science
Plus
Subjects
Whiz
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We were advised that nobody could stop us from pursuing our craft simply because we had honed, or even developed that craft while working at a company.
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Advised
Craft
Developed
Pursuing
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My background is in hardware design. I found hardware work to be a welcome change from thousands of hours of programming and that led to the designs you mentioned.
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Design
Hardware
Hours
Programming
Welcome
Background
Designs
Led
Mentioned
Thousands
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One week before Pitfall! was to be released, I only gave you one life to play the whole game. I was experimenting with that concept as sort of the ultimate challenge.
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Concept
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Released
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That's right, fall in one pit and start over from the beginning! Well, thankfully my buddies practically tied me to my chair until I put in extra lives and I'm glad they did.
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Tied
Buddies
Chair
Extra
Me Beginning Start
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Pit
Thankfully
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Another little known fact about Amazing Tennis - the computer opponents are modeled after real people. In an odd turn of events, I joined a division 3 college tennis team at age 38.
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Division
Odd
Opponents
Tennis
Joined
Modeled
Real People
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We wanted to create an environment where if a game player enjoyed the 'writing style' of a particular game designer, he or she could look for the next game by that same author and not be disappointed.
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Designer
Disappointed
Enjoyed
Particular
Writing Style
Author
He Or She
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I was a little hesitant at taking the job at Atari. I had never programmed for a living and I worried it might get boring (building circuits seemed more fun). But I would probably still be in the video game business.
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Atari
Hesitant
Video
Worried
Programmed
Seemed
Video Game
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Looking back, video game design seems a natural fit, although there was no such thing when I was growing up. I built a Tic-Tac-Toe playing machine in my teens which went up in smoke on the night it was scheduled to go to a science fair.
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Design
Growing Up
Looking Back
Seems
Smoke
Teens
Video
Although
Fair
Video Game
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The letters were universally complimentary, and we designers loved hearing that our games were being enjoyed, but if they weren't sending us a picture of their screens most of those writers would have spent their time playing the game rather than writing letters.
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Enjoyed
Games
Letters
Screens
Picture
Complimentary
Designers
Writers
Sending
Spent
Universally
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Our co-founder and company president, Jim Levy, came from a record industry background and understood the marketing and promotion of artists as well as products. So the video game business went from absolutely zero designer credit to something approaching rock star promotion.
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Zero
Credit
Designer
Marketing
Products
Promotion
Rock Star
Understood
Video
Approaching
Background
Jim
Video Game
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