What/Who is Dallas North?

[Cybergoth]

Hi there!

 

In a few manuals from 20th fox it reads stuff like "Hints from Dallas North" or "A Game By Dallas North", so what is this refering to?

 

Greetings,

Manuel

[+SpiceWare]

google using "Dallas North 20th fox" returns this as the first result.

Dallas North was a game programmer in the classic Atari 2600 era. He made games for 20th Century Fox, (mostly bad movie translations).

[Tempest]

Dallas North was an alias for Doug Neubauer. He used it when he freelanced for 20th Century Fox.

 

Tempest

[Cybergoth]

Hi there!

 

Dallas North was an alias for Doug Neubauer.  He used it when he freelanced for 20th Century Fox.

 

Ah, that makes sense. All games in question have Doug credited as programmer.

 

But this:

mostly bad movie translations

is bullshit. Alien and M.A.S.H are clearly amongst the best movie translations you can get on the VCS...

 

Greetings,

Manuel

[Snider-man]

Dallas North was an alias for Doug Neubauer.  He used it when he freelanced for 20th Century Fox.

 

Tempest

 

I don't doubt ya at all Matt, but where did you get that info? I never made the connection, and I was a 20th Century Fox hound in the day. Knew of Dallas, but didn't know Doug was he. Or him. You know what I mean.

[Tempest]

It's been mentioned in several places over the years (including the DP guide). I'm not sure how well known it is, but it's definetly not a secret.

 

Interestingly Doug also used the alias Solaris when designing The Last Starfighter. I have no idea why he was so into pseudonyms.

 

Tempest

[Snider-man]

It's been mentioned in several places over the years (including the DP guide).  I'm not sure how well known it is, but it's definetly not a secret.

 

Interestingly Doug also used the alias Solaris when designing The Last Starfighter.  I have no idea why he was so into pseudonyms.

 

Tempest

 

Groovy. I never knew any of this.

[Paul Slocum]

Wonder if it has anything to do with the movie North Dallas Forty?

 

http://imdb.com/title/tt0079640/

[Godzilla]

for some reason 'dallas north' makes me think of the movie alien...

 

what was Dallas' full name in Alien? was alien the first game 'Dallas North' worked on??? Dallas was the captain of the nostromo....

[Tempest]

what was Dallas' full name in Alien?

 

You know what? I don't think they ever told in the whole movie. The credits just list him as Dallas.

 

Tempest

[StanJr]

and you may all rest assured that Dallas North is under my hat.

[Cybergoth]

Hi there!

 

Hm... both names have the same initials...

 

Greetings,

Manuel

[Nukey Shay]

Dallas was Skerrit's LAST name in Alien First names were not given at all until the sequel...and I think that Dallas's might appear as just an initial on the display behind Ripley during the company review.

It's a space thing.

 

Talby...what's Talby's first name?

* thinks for a moment

Um...what's MY first name?

[tailGator]

And I thought Dallas North was a porn star. Oh well...

[Inky]

and you may all rest assured that Dallas North is under my hat.  

 

I thought the body was hidden in Chris ++'s asshat?

[2600Lives]

Hmmmm. Maybe it's Doug who started the pseudonym craze for game designers in Japan? I still remember Fish Man's name in just about every NES era Capcom game made...

[MegaManFan]

Fish Man, Fish Man. roly poly Fish Man..

 

Hmm, I wonder why there was never a "Fish Man" boss in a Mega Man game

[Nukey Shay]

Because it was programmed by the Japanese. They'd have Squid Man or something. j/k

 

[MegaManFan]

Now that you mention it, there IS a "Launch Octopus" in X4.

[Godzilla]

I always knew NES games were kinda fishy.