[David Crane], designer of Pitfall for the Atari 2600 gave a talk at the 2011 ... [David] wrote the game for Activision, a company that was started after game designers left Atari having been ...

As Activision’s F-14 Tomcat game for the Atari 2600 console, it seemed ripe for use as a project enclosure of some sort. When he came across a couple of 9-pin D-sub joystick ports, he had an idea.

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The Atari 7800 Plus, the renewed version of Atari’s classic home console, just received its first discount at Amazon. The ...

After releasing several games for the Atari 2600 and other computer-based consoles, famed Pitfall! programmer and designer David Crane abandoned his traditional Activision backing, formed Absolute ...