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Classic Gaming Expo Distinguished Guest:
ROB FULOP
Rob Fulop has been a pioneer in the commercialization of
interactive digital media from its earliest days in Silicon
Valley. He joined the original Atari in 1978 where he developed
home versions of Night Driver and Missile
Command, which sold over 2.5 million copies. Mr. Fulop
left Atari in 1981 to co-found Imagic, a high growth
video game start-up. As the lead game designer of Imagic, he
crafted two of the company's three best selling products,
Demon Attack, which was voted Billboard's Video
Game of the Year in 1982, and Cosmic Ark, which
sold over one million copies. Mr. Fulop was named Billboard's
Video Game Designer of the Year in 1983.
As an independent producer of interactive entertainment from 1983-1985, Mr. Fulop's Rabbit Jack's Casino for AOL quickly became the online industries first "hit", and was ported to four platforms. For Hasbro, America's largest toy company, from 1986-1988, Mr. Fulop engineered the design and production of two feature length interactive movies. Both of these titles, Sewer Shark and Night Trap were later released through Digital Pictures and were the companies two best selling CD-ROM titles.
Mr. Fulop's interest in combining sponsorship with interactive media led to the development of many widely distributed floppy disk, and CD-ROM multimedia promotional titles for clients such as Buick, PARS, American Express, and Apple computers.
As the founder and Creative Director of PF. Magic, a "multimedia gulch" startup in 1990, Mr. Fulop produced and directed Third Degree and Max Magic for Phillips Interactive Media. Max Magic went on to win the Melia Award for "Best New Entertainment Title" of 1995. At PF. Magic, supervising a growing design staff, Mr. Fulop invented the computer pet, and served as co-designer of DOGZ, the company's breakthrough title which, together with the sequels CATZ, ODDBALLZ, DOGZ II, and CATZ II have sold over two million copies world-wide, and have won countless awards, including the Oppenheimer Platinum Award of 1997.
After PF. Magic was acquired by The Learning Company in 1998, Mr. Fulop shifted his focus on the Internet as a platform for wide scale distribution of future interactive entertainment experiences he is currently developing. He has spoken at virtually all of the industry's leading conferences, and he has been profiled in a range of publications including Rolling Stone, Newsweek, Forbes, and Wired Magazine.