Doug Neubauer
Douglas Neubauer (also: Doug Neubauer ) is an American engineer and video game developer. Among other things, he designed the Atari POKEY special electronic module and programmed the computer game Star Raiders , which was very popular in the early 1980s .
Life
While Neubauer worked for Atari in 1979 , he programmed Star Raiders, which was inspired by Star Wars and Star Trek, within eight to ten months. In the early 1980s Neubauer switched from the Atari home computer to the Atari 2600 development. He developed three games ( Megaforce , Alien and M * A * S * H ) for Fox Video Games under the pseudonym Dallas North. In 1984 he was working on a game for Atari to be based on the movie The Last Starfighter , the project was canceled and never released. In 1986 Atari showed renewed interest in the project and it was released as the Solaris for the Atari 2600, it is considered a spiritual sequel to Star Raiders . In 1988 and 1989, Neubauer published the games Super Football and Radar Lock .
He also developed a game for the Nintendo Entertainment System with the working title Solarian Patrol , but the project never ended.
Web links
- official website
- Doug Neubauer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Interview with Douglas Neubauer on YouTube (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Doug Neubauer: The Atari Years .
- ^ Jack Schofield: Atari, the golden years revisited . In: The Guardian . August 23, 2008.
- ↑ James Hague: Halcyon Days: Interviews with Classic Computer and Video Game Programmers 1997.
- ^ Hague: The Giant List of Classic Game Programmers .
- ↑ Super Football .
- ↑ Radar Lock .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Neubauer, Doug |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Neubauer, Douglas (full name); North, Dallas (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American integrated circuit designer, video game developer, and programmer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |