CGE 2007™ DISTINGUISHED GUESTS & SPEAKERS

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Last updated : July 17, 2007

MR. AL ALCORN
Biography
-- Atari's co-founder, designed Atari's first hit (and first commercially successful coin-op game), Pong as well as the venerable Atari VCS (2600).

MR. GLYN ANDERSON
Biography
-- Former programmer at APh Corp, the company that founded the Intellivision.  Also programmed Atari 800 and C64 games such as Megamania and Ghostbusters with Steve Cartwright and David Crane.

MR. STEVE CARTWRIGHT
Biography
-- Activision designer responsible for the Atari VCS games Megamania, Barnstorming, Plaque Attack, Frostbite and Seaquest.

MR. DAVID CRANE
Biography
-- Co-founder of Activision in 1979, where he designed such classics as Pitfall!, Dragster, Decathlon, Fishing Derby, Freeway and Ghostbusters. He transcended the Atari era with memorable titles such as A Boy and His Blob for NES and David Crane's Amazing Tennis for 16-bit systems.

MR. DON DAGLOW
Biography
-- Designed and programmed the Intellivision game Utopia (the first sim game) before being named director of software development for Mattel. He later co-designed Earl Weaver Baseball at EA and Neverwinter Nights (the first online graphic RPG) for AOL. In 1988 he founded Stormfront Studios, which recently created The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers for EA, based on the film from New Line Cinema.

MR. KEITHEN HAYENGA
Biography
-- Atari 5200 game designer best known for incorporating speech in RealSports Baseball at a time when most home games required a separate voice synthesizer add-on.

MR. ARNIE KATZ
Biography
-- Co-founder of Electronic Games Magazine, the first and most popular publication devoted strictly to electronic entertainment.

MR. GARRY KITCHEN
Biography
-- Creator of Space Jockey, Keystone Kapers and Pressure Cooker for the Atari 2600. For the Commodore 64 computer, he wrote The Designer's Pencil and Garry Kitchen's Gamemaker.

MR. BILL KUNKEL
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-- Co-founder of Electronic Games Magazine, the first and most popular publicated devoted strictly to electronic entertainment.

MS. KAREN NUGENT
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-- A talented artist who designed the graphics for BurgerTime, Super Pro Football, Mission X, Scooby Doo's Maze Chase and Flintstone's Keyboard Fun. Currently with Disney, working on animated feature films.

MR. BOB POLARO
Biography
-- Responsible for the Atari computer hit Lemonade Stand as well as such 2600 classics as Defender, RealSports Volleyball, Desert Falcon, Road Runner, Rampage and Sprintmaster.

MR. KEITH ROBINSON
Biography
-- Intellivision programmer while at Mattel Electronics and designer of TRON Solar Sailer for the system. Co-founder of Intellivision Productions, makers of "Intellivision Lives!," a CD-ROM compilation of the original games for play on the PC and Mac.

MR. JAY SMITH
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-- A true gaming visionary, In 1979, Jay designed Milton Bradley's Microvision, which was the world's first handheld system to use cartridges. Three years later, his design for the Vectrex, the first vector-based game console was launched by CGE.

MR. JOHN P. SOHL
-- John worked at Mattel for two years, from October 1980 to October 1982. During that time, he designed Astrosmash and (with some assistance) B-17 Bomber. After Mattel, John was recruited by Activision where he spent most of his time working on a game called Termite for the Intellivision and C-64 which was never completed or released.

MR. DAVE WARHOL
Biography
-- Designed and programmed Mind Strike for the Intellivision Entertainment Computer System and programmed the Intellivision game Thunder Castle.  As founder and president of Realtime Associates, he produced and co-designed over 25 original Intellivision releases for INTV Corporation. In addition to providing sound effects and music to over two dozen Intellivision games, Mr. Warhol also wrote drivers, music, and sound effects for many C64, Atari 400/800, Apple II, Amiga, and early PC games.

MR. STEVE WOITA
Biography
-- Designer of Atari 2600 classics Quadrun, Taz, and Asterix, Tengen's Super Sprint for the Nintendo Entertainment System, and Sonic 2, Kid Chameleon and Sonic Spinball for the Sega Genesis.

MS. JOYCE WORLEY
Biography
-- Co-founder of Electronic Games Magazine, and concurrently published Electronic Games Hotline, a bi-weekly newsletter which covered the latest news surrounding the hobby.

MR. STEVE WRIGHT

Biography

--Manager of the home videogame division of Atari, programmed "Pele's Soccer" for the VCS.  Joined up with SEGA in 1983 to produce Laser Disk games, which ultimately landed him in the Computer Animation field working in Hollywood.

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