The Crossbow Home Video Game

Garry Kitchen
The Startup
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11 min readFeb 9, 2021

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Geoffrey the Giraffe and the Tale of Two Cheeks

Crossbow Arcade Game © 1983, Exidy, Inc.
Crossbow Arcade Game © 1983, Exidy, Inc.

I’ve been in the video game industry for 40+ years, starting in 1979. The first video game system I developed games for was the Atari 2600. My first two 2600 games were Space Jockey, for U.S. Games, and Donkey Kong, for Coleco. Upon their completion, I decided I wanted to work with the best game developers in the world, at a company called Activision.

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Garry Kitchen
The Startup

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.