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Classic Gaming Expo Distinguished Guest:
ED LOGG
Ed Logg was one of the early programmers/designers at Atari,
where he immediately made a name for himself with classics
such as Dirt Bike, Super Breakout
and Video Pinball. It was in 1979, however,
that Logg achieved superstardom with the legendary vector
hit Asteroids. He followed that up two years
later with Centipede, which was a consistent
money maker for Atari for years. Millipede
(Centipede's sequel) added new elements to the already
stellar gameplay such as DDT and a horde of new enemies
for players to contend with.
Following the break-up of Atari into two seperate entities,
he took his talents to Atari Games Corporation (the arcade
division) and was part of the group that created the
critically acclaimed Gauntlet and
Gauntlet II arcade games. Other titles
to his credit - in part or whole - include Xybots,
Steel Talons and Space Lords
Although often overshadowed by his arcade efforts, Logg has been
heavily involved in the home gaming area as well.
Othello was an early (and his only) Atari VCS title,
and he effectively managed to cram the complexities of the
timeless board game in a tiny ROM cartridge. Logg also wrote
Tengen's version of Tetris for the Nintendo
Entertainment System. Tengen Tetris has almost universally been
acknowledged as the superior of the two Tetris games on the NES
(Nintendo's version being the other.) Today, he works on home
conversions of Midway and Atari Games' popular arcade games,
with Nintendo 64 versions of Wayne Gretzky 3-D Hockey
and San Francisco Rush being his most recent works.