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Classic Gaming Expo Distinguished Guest:
ROBERT SMITH
Robert Smith is a 20-year veteran of the electronic entertainment
industry, and his repertoire of game titles is varied and star-studded.
Smith's first foray into the world of games was with Seca, a 6K
road racing game for the TRS-80 Computer that was distributed by Creative
Computing in 1979. Following that success, he joined Atari, where his
creation, Video Pinball, was a best-seller on the Atari VCS game
system.
In 1982, Smith joined Imagic, history's second video game software publisher. There, he was responsible for several blockbuster games. Star Voyager, Riddle of the Sphinx, Dragonfire and Moonsweeper all were favorably received both by the gaming press and consumers alike. Not only were all of them immensely playable, Smith's games pushed the limits of what the VCS could do. In 1984, he was contracted by Parker Brothers to develop the Atari VCS version of Atari's coin-op hit Star Wars.
Smith then took his trade to Accolade. He was involved with WarpSpeed (Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis) and Charles Barkley Shut Up And Jam (I and II). He then left to join 3DO in 1998, where he was one of several programmers who worked on the hit game Army Men 3D for the company.