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An interview with Chris Crawford, who was creator of the Atari 8-bit games Eastern Front (1941), Energy Czar, Scram, Gossip, Excalibur, and Legionnaire. He also created the games Balance of Power, Patton Versus Rommel, Trust & Betrayal, Guns & Butter, Patton Strikes Back, Balance of the Planet, Le Morte D’Arthur. He is co-author of the book De Re Atari and author of The Art of Computer Game Design.
The interview was conducted on September 9, 2013.
Chris Crawford's web page is at erasmatazz.com and the source code for some of his programs is available (erasmatazz.com/library/source-code.html)
The full text of De Re Atari is at atariarchives.org/dere and archive.org/details/ataribooks-de-re-atari
More information about Eastern Front is available: atariarchives.org/creativeatari/Eastern_Front.php and atarimagazines.com/compute/issue57/computer_game.html
Another interview with Crawford: archive.org/details/getlamp-crawford
An interview with Chris Crawford, who was creator of the Atari 8-bit games Eastern Front (1941), Energy Czar, Scram, Gossip, Excalibur, and Legionnaire. He also created the games Balance of Power, Patton Versus Rommel, Trust & Betrayal, Guns & Butter, Patton Strikes Back, Balance of the Planet, Le Morte D’Arthur. He is co-author of the book De Re Atari and author of The Art of Computer Game Design.
The interview was conducted on September 9, 2013.
Chris Crawford's web page is at erasmatazz.com and the source code for some of his programs is available (erasmatazz.com/library/source-code.html)
The full text of De Re Atari is at atariarchives.org/dere and archive.org/details/ataribooks-de-re-atari
More information about Eastern Front is available: atariarchives.org/creativeatari/Eastern_Front.php and atarimagazines.com/compute/issue57/computer_game.html
Another interview with Crawford: archive.org/details/getlamp-crawford
