Back in the early days of console gaming most video games were written and programmed by a single person. Today most games are written by a huge team of people. But in the Atari 2600 days it was usually just a single person, (or a very small team).
Obscure Atari 2600 Game Programmers
And here, for your enjoyment is a list of the Atari 2600 programmers with only a single game to their credit…
Bill Hood ... Shuttle Orbiter Bob Colbert ... OkieDokie Brian McGhie ... Rabbit Transit Brian Prescott ... Crazy Valet Charlie Heath ... Reactor Chris Crawford ... Wizard Dave Hampton ... Q*bert Dave Johnson ... Quick Step! Dave Jolly ... Obelix Duncan Scott ... Wall Ball E.F. Dreyer ... Mountain King William O. Sheppard ... London Blitz Warren Schwader ... Threshhold Thomas Jentzsch ... Thrust Steve Tatsumi ... Kool Aid Man Steve Hales ... Suicide Mission Steve Aguirre ... Fatal Run Shirley Russell ... Boing! Scott Smith ... Gremlins Ed Federmeyer ... Edtris 2600 Ed Hodapp ... Deadly Duck Eric Mooney ... INV Frank Cohen ... M*A*S*H Gary Kaplan ... Speedway II Gary Stark ... Cookie Monster Munch Grady Ward ... Beany Bopper John Harris ... Jawbreaker John K. Harvey ... Pressure Gauge John Marvin ... Crypts of Chaos John Palevich ... Dark Chambers John Perkins ... Artillery Duel John Russell ... Pigs In Space Kevin Norman ... Killer Satellites Karl T. Olinger ... King Kong Joseph Tung ... Realsports Baseball Jon Russell ... Revenge of the Beefsteak Tomatoes Jon Leupp ... Sword of Saros Mark De Smet ... Video Simon Mark Klein ... Subterranea Mark Lesser ... Frogger II: Threedeep! Michael Callahan ... Alpha Beam with Ernie Michael Greene ... No Escape! Michael Kosaka ... Crystal Castles Mike Reidel ... Commando Mike Schwartz ... Chase the Chuckwagon Mimi Nyden ... Gremlins Nolan Bushnell ... Secret Quest Robert H. O'Neil ... Polaris Rorke Weigandt ... Marauder
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