AlanJMurphy

Hi, this is Alan what are your questions?

Hi, this is Alan, what are your questions?

I think Quagmire is a game that I worked on with Jim Andreasen (5200 Pacman). We worked on something that was shown at a conference. I'm pretty sure that's it anyway. I have the animation for it somewhere. Countermeasure has my first easter egg; it's in the 'explode skull' screen at the end. You can see the initials AJM when the color cycling starts.

Sptifire was using an algorithm that scaled a 2D block towards the viewport, basically a 3D block that I used to build terrain and the player ship sprites. Joe Copson was a Viet Nam war vet and the programmer.I spent long evenings at Joe's house digitizing a toy we found for the spaceship using very a primitive digitizing method where I'd draw the ship from different angles and convert the drawing into pixels using "animat" software written by Dave Theurer (Missile Command, Tempest, I, Robot, etc.). Spitfire was cancelled because it was taking to long to create a game that anyone thought would sell. It was also slow to compute all the "3D" pixels. Accelerator was an arcade game that had a sideways scrolling play field and a monorail track. The monorail would switch tracks at high speed and you'd have to make the right choice or the train would crash. Dennis Harper programmed, I was the artist.

Hi, That might take a while. At Atari the coolest unreleased game was something called Air Race. It was the first dedicated 3D hardware game. Before that there was something called spitfiire that had true algorithmic 3D on the 5200: http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-5200-spitfire_14919.html There were several others: Accelerator, Bugs Bunny, Xevious 5200, I'd have to check. Here's a link to the website for a list of games released and unreleased: www.alan-murphy.com.

Hi, I live in San Jose California about 3 miles from the original Atari location. I can't ship this machine, it's very heavy. If a museum will pay shipping and move it before the end of this week, it's free. If you have questions about Atari, let me know, otherwise I'm busy packing for a move and there's a lot to do to get ready. I will check in from time to time this week. Thank you, Alan Murphy

I am moving overseas and want to sell or find a good home for my Gauntlet arcade machine. Does anyone know a museum that would take it? It has some historical value. I won it by picking straws with the other artists at Atari and its been sitting in my house since the mid 80's. As far as I know, it's the first one ever built and was used as a test machine in an arcade in Cupertino before it was put into full production. I put it up for auction on ebay but overpriced it and it had a lot of interest but didnt sell. Now I just want to get rid of it. I would like to get money for it but it'll end up at the dump otherwise. Please help me find a suitable home for it. Its in good condition, works fine, etc. I can send pictures to anyone interested. I leave in 12 days.