Eugene Jarvis

Eugene Peyton Jarvis (born 1955) is a game designer and programmer, producing pinball machines for Atari and video game for Williams Electronics. Most notable amongst his works are the seminal arcade video game Defender and Robotron: 2084 in the early 1980, and the Cruis'n series of driving games for Midway Games in the 1990s. He co-founded Vid Kidz in the early 1980s and currently leads his own development studio, Raw Thrills Inc. In 2008 Eugene Jarvis was named the first Game Designer in Residence by DePaul University's Game Development program. Eugene Jarvis was born in Palo Alto, California in 1955. His first game was chess, which he played as a young child and was one of the best players at Bellarmine College Preparatory in San Jose. Jarvis's first encounter with computer came while he was in high school attending a one-day course on FORTRAN programming given by IBM. Jarvis originally intended to become a biochemist but decided on studying computers instead. At the University... full article at wikipedia