Keith Robinson designed his first computer game in 1969 while a freshman
in high school. In 1981, after receiving a Masters degree in Computer
Science from UCLA, he joined Mattel Electronics as an Intellivision
programmer. After designing the game TRON Solar Sailer he moved
into management, supervising the production of titles for Intellivision,
Colecovision and other game platforms.
After Mattel Electronics sold the Intellivision rights to INTV
Corporation in 1984, Keith started his own graphic design firm. That firm
designed the package art for INTV's new Intellivision releases until INTV
shut down in 1990. In 1997, Keith and fellow Mattel alumnus Stephen Roney
founded Intellivision Productions and bought the rights to the
Intellivision system and games. In 1998, the company released Intellivision
Lives!," a CD-ROM compilation of the original games for play on
the PC and Mac.
Keith Robinson is also an award-winning cartoonist. His weekly comic
strip, "Making It," has appeared in newspapers nationally
since 1985, has been collected into three books, and was the basis of the
Sega Genesis game Normy's Beach-Babe-O-Rama. His cartoons and
illustrations also appear regularly in many magazines, including Playboy,
Cat Fancy and Dog Fancy.