Larry Kaplan

Larry Kaplan (born around 1950) is an American video game designer and programmer . He studied at the University of California, Berkeley from 1968 to 1974 and graduated with a BA in Computer Science.

First he worked for the Atari company and was largely responsible for the success of several Atari 2600 games. Because the name of the game designer was not mentioned in the video games of the Atari company , Kaplan resigned from Atari and in 1979 became one of the five founders of the video game company Activision .

At Activision, Kaplan became particularly popular with the Atari 2600 game Kaboom! known. The game was published by Activision in 1981.

He left Activision in the summer of 1982 and had a short-term contract with Nolan Bushnell whose project did not get off the ground. In the autumn of the same year he was hired as VP for consumer software division at Atari and was supposed to develop a new hardware system, but was dismissed after a collapse in the stock market in the summer of 83. Other short positions followed at Capcom and 3DO .

He was briefly lead technical director for the film Antz , but left the production company before completion. From 2001 until the company's dissolution in 2003, he worked again at 3DO. Since then, he has retired from working life (as of 2011).

Web links

• Larry Kaplan at MobyGames
• List of Kaplan's games at AtariAge

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The description of Kaplan's career goes back to digit press: Interview with Larry Kaplan , 2011