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How I Fixed Atari’s Awful Music

And Got Over My Fear of Out-of-Tune Game Toons

5 min readNov 9, 2020

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How I Fixed Atari’s Awful Music

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Activision, Atari, Absolute: How Video Game Companies Once Gamed the Alphabet for an Inside Joke

Notes from a retro game designer

7 min readJan 5, 2021

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Activision, Atari, Absolute: How Video Game Companies Once Gamed the Alphabet for an Inside Joke

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Designing an electronic toy — Wildfire Pinball

Adventures in Toy Design: Part 2

26 min readNov 27, 2020

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Wildfire Pinball by Parker Brothers (1979) — side panel of box

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How I Spent My Summer of 1982

The making of Donkey Kong for the Atari 2600

12 min readOct 28, 2020

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Geoffrey the Giraffe and the Tale of Two Cheeks

The Story of the Crossbow Home Video Game

11 min readFeb 9, 2021

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Crossbow Arcade Game © 1983, Exidy, Inc.

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What’s Under Those PW Dots?

I don’t like when my computer hides things from me.

7 min readFeb 5, 2021

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What’s Under Those PW Dots?

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The товарищи (comrades) across the hall.

My first job (1969) — NYC, teletypes and espionage

6 min readFeb 3, 2021

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The товарищи (comrades) across the hall.

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The Origins of Computer Mahjong

The amazing story of its development.

8 min readDec 18, 2020

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The Origins of Computer Mahjong

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“It’s just an electronic toy, officer.”

Adventures in Toy Design: Part 3

5 min readDec 1, 2020

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Picture of an open briefcase holding the electronics of a toy prototype, and closeup of a remote control with a fire button

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The Voice Scrambling Helmet

Adventures in Toy Design: Part 1

6 min readNov 11, 2020

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The Voice Scrambling Helmet

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Garry Kitchen

Garry Kitchen

Garry Kitchen is a retro video game designer whose titles include Donkey Kong (2600), Keystone Kapers, GameMaker (1985) and Bart (Simpson) vs the Space Mutants.

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