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    David Crane (born in Nappanee, Indiana, United States) is an American video game designer and programmer. Crane grew up fascinated by technology and went...
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  • programmed by David Crane. Licensed by Nintendo in the summer of 1989, development began and was completed in an intense six-week period. Crane has described...
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  • popular sitcom Friends David Crane (programmer) (born 1953), video game designer, programmer and co-founder of Activision David W. Crane (born 1959), American...
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  • the sitcom Friends David Crane (programmer) (born 1953), video game designer, programmer and co-founder of Activision David W. Crane (born 1959), American...
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  • Ghostbusters (1984 video game) (category Video games designed by David Crane (programmer))
    by Activision based on the film of the same name. It was designed by David Crane and released for several home computer platforms in 1984, and later for...
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  • David Crane's Amazing Tennis is a tennis simulation video game developed and published by Absolute Entertainment for the Super Nintendo Entertainment...
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  • Dragster (video game) (category Video games designed by David Crane (programmer))
    by David Crane. Crane developed a new way to display score for the Atari 2600 which is normally set to the left and right of the screen, which Crane described...
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  • Pitfall! (category Video games designed by David Crane (programmer))
    Pitfall! is a video game developed by David Crane for the Atari 2600 and released in 1982 by Activision. The player controls Pitfall Harry, who has a...
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  • Outlaw (1978 video game) (category Video games designed by David Crane (programmer))
    Outlaw is a 1978 video game developed at Atari by David Crane. The game is a variation of the arcade game Gun Fight (1975). Upon release, it received...
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  • Pitfall II: Lost Caverns (category Video games designed by David Crane (programmer))
    Pitfall II: Lost Caverns is a video game developed by David Crane for the Atari 2600. It was released in 1984 by Activision. The player controls Pitfall...
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  • game and were unable to achieve better than a 5.54. The game's programmer David Crane would later confirm that he had a vague recollection of programming...
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  • Fishing Derby (category Video games designed by David Crane (programmer))
    Fishing Derby is a fishing video game written by David Crane for the Atari Video Computer System (renamed to the Atari 2600 in 1982) and published by...
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  • The Activision Decathlon (category Video games designed by David Crane (programmer))
    The Activision Decathlon is a sports video game written by David Crane for the Atari 2600 and published by Activision in 1983. It was ported to the Atari...
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  • Bart Simpson's Escape from Camp Deadly (category Video games designed by David Crane (programmer))
    Developer(s) Imagineering Publisher(s) Acclaim Entertainment Designer(s) David Crane Mark Klein Barry Marx Artist(s) Mike Sullivan Composer(s) Mark Van Hecke...
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  • The Rescue of Princess Blobette (category Video games designed by David Crane (programmer))
    castle. The Rescue of Princess Blobette was designed and programmed by David Crane, who also created the original NES game. The Rescue of Princess Blobette...
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  • Laser Blast (category Video games designed by David Crane (programmer))
    for the Atari VCS console (renamed to Atari 2600 in 1982). Designed by David Crane, one of Activision's co-founders, Laser Blast places players in control...
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  • feature have been panel presentations by industry alumni such as David Crane (programmer), Garry Kitchen, Joseph C. Decuir, Howard Scott Warshaw, Jennell...
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  • Transformers: The Battle to Save the Earth (category Video games designed by David Crane (programmer))
    the Earth Developer(s) Activision Publisher(s) Activision Designer(s) David Crane Platform(s) Commodore 64 Release NA: 1986 Genre(s) Action role-playing...
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  • Designer(s) Dan Kitchen David Crane Programmer(s) Jason Benham (lead programming and design) Andy Rogers Bill Jannott David Lubar Composer(s) Dan Foliart...
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  • Slot Machine (video game) (category Video games designed by David Crane (programmer))
    Slot Machine is a 1979 video game written by David Crane for the Atari VCS (renamed to the Atari 2600 in 1982) and published by Atari, Inc. Along with...
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  • Year Name Description 2015 David Bishop Programmer and vice-president of Namco America 2017 David Crane Programmer and co-founder of Activision 2019 Reggie...
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  • Entertainment. The game's story follows an undercover agent named Kyle Crane who is sent to infiltrate a quarantine zone in a fictional Middle Eastern...
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  • Bob Whitehead (category American video game programmers)
    implementation of chess, a feat many other programmers considered impossible for the system. He and his co-workers David Crane, Larry Kaplan, and Alan Miller became...
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    keeping production costs minimal for Warner, according to David Crane, one of Atari's programmers. In early 1979, Atari's marketing department circulated...
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    after his brief stint at Hasbro, David Crane had joined the company. While the company was based in New Jersey, David Crane worked out of his home on the...
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    the top five best-selling Atari 2600 games are Pitfall! (designed by David Crane for Activision), Donkey Kong (a port of the 1981 Nintendo arcade game...
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    Garry Kitchen (category American video game programmers)
    1955, in Washington, D.C., United States) is a video game designer, programmer, and executive best known for his work at Activision during the early...
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  • Freeway is an action video game written by David Crane for the Atari 2600 and published by Activision in 1981. One or two players control chickens who...
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    older brother, Andy, and a younger brother, Sean, who work as a computer programmer and potter, respectively. When Moynahan was around seven years old, her...
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  • Entertainment (Amiga, ST) Designer(s) Dan Kitchen Roger Booth Barry Marx Programmer(s) David Crane Garry Kitchen Shen Jian Long Chung S. Lau Mark Morris Henry C...
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