Lyle Rains

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Lyle Rains was a senior executive at the arcade game company Atari and is sometimes, with Ed Logg, listed as a co-developer of the video game Asteroids. In fact, Rains called Logg into his office and said "Well, why don’t we have a game where you shoot the rocks and blow them up?".^[1] Rains also served as Executive Producer for a large number of Atari coin-op games. An avid gamer, he wrote a popular online FAQ for the Atari coin-op game KLAX.

Game credits

Tank (1974)
Jet Fighter (1975)
Steeplechase (1975)
Sprint 2 (1976) - also credited with designing the well-known 'Atari arcade font'.
Sprint 4 (1977)
Atari Football (1978)
Sky Raider (1978) - game designer
Asteroids (1979)
Hard Drivin' (1988)
Race Drivin' (1990)
Space Lords (1992)

Quotations

"I guess the way I describe it is that I'm the father of Asteroids. Ed Logg is the mother of Asteroids, because he had to live with it for nine months and deliver a finished product. All I had to do was to provide a seed."

References

↑ William Cassidy. "Asteroids". ClassicGaming. IGN. Retrieved January 6, 2014.

External links

History of Atari's Asteroids
Article at The Dot Eaters, on Rains and the development of Asteroids
Lyle Rains at Arcade-History.com

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