I stumbled across this forum thread today and I'm very sad to learn that Alex is gone. He was only 43 when he passed.
I knew Alex personally. We shared an office at Bally Midway in 1982, working on 2600 games together. After about a year we both did work for a company called Roklan. Alex was a very intense person, always high energy. We used to team up on one of the arcade games that had a two player cooperative mode and rack up some high scores.
I remember testing Crazy Climber while he was working on it, and he tested a game I was working on, Solar Fox. Probably nobody knows that he and I worked together on designing the preliminary screen display for Ms. PacMan during the very early stage of that game's development.
Alex was always full of energy, and he could really crank out code.
I've been out of touch with him since the mid-90's when he worked at Activision. If anyone has more details about his passing, I would appreciate learning more.
Bob Curtiss