Classic Gaming Trivia

[Fort Apocalypse]

Try to name 5 facts related to classic gaming that others might not be aware of.

[the maddestman]

Carol B. Shaw - programmer of River Raid amongst others - was the first female game programmer.

 

The designer of the POKEY (Chip C012294) also programmed the Star Raiders video game.

 

Jay Miner was involved with Atari heavily, with a big part in designing the TIA and other 8 bit Atari parts, before leaving and becoming involved with Hi-Toro, which lead to the development of the Amiga, in some ways expanding on his work on the Atari 8 bits. So while the ST and Amiga are fairly different machines, the Atari 800 series and Amiga could be said to be related.

 

There were 'adult' games for the Atari VCS/2600 - of which, Clusters Revenge would be the most infamous.

 

The Atari VCS/2600 CPU actually ran at a faster clock speed then the Commodore 64s CPU!