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Article on Warren Robinett and Adventure

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Today's Playing Catch-Up, a weekly column that dares to speak to notable video game industry figures about their celebrated pasts and promising futures, speaks to Warren Robinett, developer of 1979 Atari title Adventure and co-founder of the Learning Company......

 

 

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=13280

 

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Hewlett Packard??

 

(rummage rummage rummage...)

 

Oh wow, he's in the address book!

 

Great, as if my day isn't busy enough, now I have to deal with the temptation of emailing him a slobbering fanboy letter!

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This paragraph:

Robinett’s first game for the system was Slot Racers, a simple racing title that he describes as “a learning exercise”. “It would have never gotten published in any normal situation,” he muses, “but Atari needed product and published everything the programmers produced in 1978.”

...explains a lot.

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Hewlett Packard??

 

(rummage rummage rummage...)

 

Oh wow, he's in the address book!

 

Great, as if my day isn't busy enough, now I have to deal with the temptation of emailing him a slobbering fanboy letter!

 

Likewise then :D

 

(another HP lacky I see then!)

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(another HP lacky I see then!)

 

Yep, sitting at my desk with a dumb little placard... which doesn't even have the right name on it!

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