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David Crane (programmer)
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David Crane (born in Nappanee, Indiana) is a video game designer and programmer.
Crane started his programming career at Atari, making games for the Atari 2600. After meeting up with co-worker Alan Miller in a tennis game, Miller discussed with him a plan he had to leave and found a company that would give game designers more recognition. From this meeting, he left Atari in 1979 and co-founded Activision, along with Miller, Jim Levy, Bob Whitehead and Larry Kaplan. His games have won many awards while he was at Activision. At Activision, he is best known as the designer of Pitfall!, a game that stayed at the top of the charts for 64 weeks. He used to have a personalized license plate that had Pitfall as the letters on it.
In 1986, he left Activision to co-found Absolute Entertainment with Garry Kitchen. They left mostly because of Jim Levy's departure, and the way the newly appointed CEO of Activision, Bruce Davis, treated video games more like commodities and not as creative products. Although he worked for Absolute, he did all of his programming at his home in California. For Absolute Entertainment, he was known for A Boy and His Blob, and Amazing Tennis. In 1995, Absolute Entertainment was dissolved, and became a defunct company.
In 1995, he co-founded Skyworks Technologies and currently is that organization's Chief Technical Officer.
| Year | Title | Company |
|---|---|---|
| 1978 | Outlaw | Atari |
| 1979 | Canyon Bomber | Atari |
| 1981 | Freeway | Activision |
| 1982 | Pitfall! | Activision |
| 1984 | Pitfall II: Lost Caverns | Activision |
| 1984 | Ghostbusters | Activision |
| 1985 | Little Computer People | Activision |
| 1989 | A Boy and His Blob | Absolute Entertainment |
| 1990 | The Rescue of Princess Blobette | Absolute Entertainment |
| 1994 | Night Trap | Digital Pictures |
- David Crane's profile at MobyGames
- Legends of the C64 article on David Crane and Activision
- Meet David Crane: Video Games Guru magazine interview from 1983
- The Dot Eaters article featuring Crane, Pitfall! and Activision
- "Playing Catch-Up: 'A Boy And His Job: Activision's David Crane'", interview with Crane on Gamasutra
- Win Pitfall! Creator David Crane
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