Blue Sky Ranger Keith Robinson celebrates his birthday September 9. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Keith worked on special effects for movies and television shows, including Masada, Little House on the Prairie, History of the World Part One and the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special. A meeting at Information International, Inc., where they were creating effects for the movie TRON, led Keith to Mattel Electronics, which was looking for someone to program TRON Solar Sailer, an Intellivoice game based on the movie. Keith took the job and was soon managing the development of other Intellivision games, including Shark! Shark!, Thin Ice and Hover Force.
In 1997, two years after creating a web site on the history of Intellivision, Keith founded Intellivision Productions, Inc. with fellow Blue Sky Ranger Stephen Roney. Intellivision Productions purchased the rights to the Intellivision system and started releasing collections of the original games for modern platforms.
Since 1985, Keith has written and drawn the newspaper comic strip Making It: A Survival Guide for Today, which is posted weekly on the Making It web site.
In this interview from 1999, Keith talks about the formation of Intellivision Productions and bringing the games to a new generation of players:
Blue Sky Ranger Keith Robinson celebrates his birthday September 9. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Keith worked on special effects for movies and television shows, including Masada, Little House on the Prairie, History of the World Part One and the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special. A meeting at Information International, Inc., where they were creating effects for the movie TRON, led Keith to Mattel Electronics, which was looking for someone to program TRON Solar Sailer, an Intellivoice game based on the movie. Keith took the job and was soon managing the development of other Intellivision games, including Shark! Shark!, Thin Ice and Hover Force.
