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Four Programmers Celebrate Birthdays |
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Monday, 24 November 2008 |
Four Blue Sky Rangers celebrate birthdays this week.
Minhchou Tran celebrated her birthday November 23. She programmed the Intellivision Pinball cartridge with Blue Sky Ranger Bob Newstadt. You can play Pinball on the Intellivision Lives! collection for Windows and for PS2/PS3, both available in our web store, or on the Xbox Originals version in the Xbox Live Marketplace.
Steve Sents (November 24) programmed TRON Deadly Discs, one of the most popular Intellivision games. Due to licensing restrictions from Disney, we cannot currently re-release the original. HOWEVER, our Intellivision Second Edition plug-and-play unit does include Deadly Discs, a slightly reworked version that removes the copyrighted elements from the TRON movie. If you've been missing this game, the Intellivision Second Edition version (shown here) is the closest thing to the real thing. Hurry! The plug-and-play is being discontinued - we are limited to stock on hand!
Steve Tatsumi (November 25) was a programmer in the M Network group which translated Intellivision games to the Atari 2600 platform. An exception was Steve's Kool-Aid Man. It is not an Atari version of the Intellivision Kool-Aid Man; it is an original design by Steve.
Daniel Bass (November 26) did the Intellivision version of the Konami arcade game Loco-Motion. He also started work at Mattel Electronics on the Dungeons & Dragons-inspired Tower of Doom. Mattel stopped Intellivision production in 1984 with the game only half-finished. Work on it was resumed a few years later by INTV Corporation. Dan was unavailable to complete the game, so the job fell to John Tomlinson. You can play Tower of Doom on the Intellivision Lives! collection for Windows and for PS2/PS3, both available on our web store, or on the Xbox Originals version in the Xbox Live Marketplace.
Happy Birthday to all!
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 26 November 2008 )
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