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Bill Budge (born c. 1954) is a computer game programmer and designer. His two main claims to fame...

Bill Budge (born c. 1954) is a computer game programmer and designer. His two main claims to fame are 1981's Raster Blaster and 1983's Pinball Construction Set. Both these games were released originally for the Apple II. Budge says he became interested in computers while obtaining a PhD at UC Berkeley. He purchased an Apple II and began writing games. He enjoyed it so much that he dropped out of school and became a game programmer. Budge's first game was a Pong clone, called "Penny Arcade", which he wrote using his own custom graphics routines. He traded the completed game to Apple Computer for a Centronics printer. While a graduate student in Computer Science at UC Berkeley, he went on to make other games, which he tried to market commercially. Teaming up with a floppy disk drive salesman who traveled from store to store, he and the salesman agreed to split profits of selling his games 50/50. Budge was shocked when he got his first check for USD$7,000. Budge then proceeded to write fast graphics libraries for game programmers. He stated that was where his real love was: Budge first became interested in writing a pinball game while working for Apple in 1981. There was a pinball