Arcade-Head Bob's New Writeups

Atari Games (place)

1999-11-13T09:55:45Z

Often confused with Atari Corp, Atari Games has never made computers,and has veterans from the early days of
video-games including pong, asteroids, asteroids deluxe, centipede, millipede, pole-position, crystal castles, hard-drivin, race-drivin and others. Contrary to what most people think, Atari Games (the "Real" Atari) is still in business at the time of this writing (June 1999). Famous people that work at Atari Games include Ed Logg, Dave Shepperd, John Ray,

REII (thing)

1999-11-13T09:55:45Z

A machine built by SGI in the early 90's that cost a million dollars and could do real-time texture mapping 3d graphics. The power of an REII is less than todays
$100 PC-graphics cards (EG Voodoo2, Hardware-based 3D Card+).

coin-op (thing)

1999-11-13T09:55:44Z

Short for "coin-operated".
Coin-op is also slang for a coin-op arcade-game.

Ed Logg (person)

1999-11-13T09:55:43Z

A video-game Programmer who is well-respected by his peers for making great arcade-games like the Asteroids arcade game, Centipede, millipede, San Francisco Rush N64, and others. At the time of this Writing, Ed works for Atari Games in Milpitas, CA.

vector graphics (thing)

1999-11-13T09:55:43Z

Vector graphics are a way of displaying images on a CRT in which the beam of electrons is controlled directly by the display hardware instead of tracing the same route over and over the way that television and computer monitors do.

The most well-known vector graphics arcade-game is the asteroids arcade game written by Ed Logg who still works for Atari-Games as of this writing (1999).