The Robinett/Atari Easter Egg was first found by a 15-year-old from Salt Lake City called Adam Clayton. He discovered the secret room, found Robinett’s signature and wrote the letter in the pic to Atari.
The D-pad
How do you control the characters in your video games? In the beginning it was Gunpei Yokoi who imaginated how LCD technology in a calculator might be used to create a miniature game.
Space Invaders
The game credited with starting the ‘Golden Age’ of arcade gaming turns 40 this month (June 2018). Bikkuri! Wow! Space Invaders is the two-dimensional shooter game where the player controls a laser cannon by moving it horizontally across the bottom of the screen and firing at the descending aliens.
Top Individual Hand High Score Screen
In BAM! there are a number of different ways that scores are displayed. In the Level Selection screen, each Level has the total accumulated score for every Hand in the Level. And did you know that BAM! also records your Top 200 Individual Hand high scores?
Jerry Lawson
DO YOU KNOW Who introduced the Pause button to video games? The short answer is Gerald ‘Jerry‘ A. Lawson (1 December, 1940 – 9 April, 2011) an African-American engineer and video game pioneer. Fairchild Semiconductor International, Inc was founded in 1957 and was a division of Fairchild Camera and Instrument. It became a pioneer in […]