David Crane is a video game designer and programmer. Crane started his programming career at Atari, making games for the Atari 2600. After meeting co-worker Alan Miller in a tennis game, Miller told Crane about a plan he had to leave Atari and found a company that would give game designers more recognition. From this meeting, Crane left Atari in 1979 and co-founded Activision, along with Miller, Jim Levy, Bob Whitehead, and Larry Kaplan. His games won many awards while he was at Activision.
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- David Crane is een Amerikaans programmeur en ontwerper van computerspellen.
- David Crane er en amerikansk spilldesiger som har vært kjent for å ha laget spillene Pitfall! og A Boy and his Blob.
- David Crane ist ein erfolgreicher US-amerikanischer Videospiele-Entwickler und Programmierer. Ursprünglich entwickelte Crane ab Ende der 1970er Jahre Spiele für den Atari 2600. Nach einem Treffen mit Alan Miller, der eine eigene Firma aufbauen wollte, in der die Programmierer der Spiele auch der Öffentlichkeit genannt und beworben werden sollten, verließ Crane 1979 Atari und wurde Mitbegründer von Activision, zusammen mit Jim Levy, Bob Whitehead und Larry Kaplan. Die Spiele von Crane wurden weltbekannt und gewannen etliche Auszeichnungen. Im Jahre 1986 verließ Crane Activision und wurde Mitgründer von Absolute Entertainment zusammen mit Garry Kitchen. Im Jahre 1995 gründete Crane Skyworks Technologies, eine Firma die Online-Spiele produziert, und ist dort gegenwärtig Chief Technical Officer.
- David Crane is a video game designer and programmer. Crane started his programming career at Atari, making games for the Atari 2600. After meeting co-worker Alan Miller in a tennis game, Miller told Crane about a plan he had to leave Atari and found a company that would give game designers more recognition. From this meeting, Crane left Atari in 1979 and co-founded Activision, along with Miller, Jim Levy, Bob Whitehead, and Larry Kaplan. His games won many awards while he was at Activision. At Activision, he was best known as the designer of Pitfall!. Pitfall! was a huge hit, and maintained the top slot on the Billboard charts for 64 weeks and was named video game of the year in 1982. Crane maintained that the Atari policy of relying on mangled adaptations of arcade games would result in a glut of cheap, unappealing games, which became one of the contributing factors to the Video Game Crash of 1983. He believed instead that tailoring new games to the strengths and weaknesses of the 2600 machine would have yielded positive results. The reasoning was that while the new games would have lacked the instant-promotion of an already-known name, word of mouth among video gamers, being a young and highly-social group, would have gradually made up for it if the game was good. In 1986, Crane left Activision to co-found Absolute Entertainment with Garry Kitchen. The two of them left mainly because of Jim Levy's departure, and the way the newly appointed CEO of Activision, Bruce Davis, treated video games more like commodities rather than creative products. Although Crane worked for Absolute, he did all of his programming at his home in California. With Absolute, he was known for Amazing Tennis and A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia, a successful NES title following the adventures of the protagonist and his companion, a shape-shifting blob. In 1995, Absolute Entertainment was dissolved. In 1995, Crane co-founded Skyworks Technologies, and is the organization's Chief Technical Officer.
- David Crane es un diseñador de videojuegos y un programador de videojuegos. Crane inició su carrera en Atari, desarrollando videojuegos para el Atari 2600. Tras un reunión con un compañero Alan Miller en un juego de tennis, Miller le expuso su plan de dejar la companía y fundar una en la que le dieran más reconocimiento a los diseñadores de videojuegos. Tras esta reunion, dejo Atari en 1979 y fundo Activision junto con Miller, Jim Levy, Bob Whitehead y Larry Kaplan. Sus videojuegos ganaron muchos reconocimientos mientras estuvo en Activision. En Activision, es mejor conocido por ser el diseñador de Pitfall!, un videojuego que mantuvo en las listas por 64 semanas. Solía tener una placa personalizada para su automovil con las letras Pitfall en ella. En 1986, Crane dejo Activision y fundó Absolute Entertainment junto con Garry Kitchen. Ambos dejaron Activision por la partida de Jim Levy, y la manera en que el nuevo CEO de Activision, Bruce Davis, trataba a los videojuegos como mercancias en vez de productos creativos. Aunque Crane trabajo para Absolute, realizo toda la programación desde su casa en California. En Absolute Entertainment, fue mejor conocido por A Boy and His Blob, un título exitoso para NES en el que se siguen las aventuras del protagonista y su compañero, una forma cambiante llamada 'blob', y Amazing Tennis. En 1995, Absolute Entertainment fue disuelta, y se convirtió en una compañía extinta. En 1995, fundó Skyworks Technologies y actualmente es el oficial en jefe técnico de la organización.
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- David Crane at the Retro Gaming Expo 2011
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- David Crane es un diseñador de videojuegos y un programador de videojuegos. Crane inició su carrera en Atari, desarrollando videojuegos para el Atari 2600. Tras un reunión con un compañero Alan Miller en un juego de tennis, Miller le expuso su plan de dejar la companía y fundar una en la que le dieran más reconocimiento a los diseñadores de videojuegos. Tras esta reunion, dejo Atari en 1979 y fundo Activision junto con Miller, Jim Levy, Bob Whitehead y Larry Kaplan.
- David Crane is een Amerikaans programmeur en ontwerper van computerspellen.
- David Crane er en amerikansk spilldesiger som har vært kjent for å ha laget spillene Pitfall! og A Boy and his Blob.
- David Crane is a video game designer and programmer. Crane started his programming career at Atari, making games for the Atari 2600. After meeting co-worker Alan Miller in a tennis game, Miller told Crane about a plan he had to leave Atari and found a company that would give game designers more recognition. From this meeting, Crane left Atari in 1979 and co-founded Activision, along with Miller, Jim Levy, Bob Whitehead, and Larry Kaplan. His games won many awards while he was at Activision.
- David Crane ist ein erfolgreicher US-amerikanischer Videospiele-Entwickler und Programmierer. Ursprünglich entwickelte Crane ab Ende der 1970er Jahre Spiele für den Atari 2600. Nach einem Treffen mit Alan Miller, der eine eigene Firma aufbauen wollte, in der die Programmierer der Spiele auch der Öffentlichkeit genannt und beworben werden sollten, verließ Crane 1979 Atari und wurde Mitbegründer von Activision, zusammen mit Jim Levy, Bob Whitehead und Larry Kaplan.
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