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Dave Akers is a video game programmer and designer who worked on the M Network ports of BurgerTime,[1] Bump 'n' Jump,[2] and Star Strike[3] for the Atari 2600. He co-designed the 1989 arcade game Klax with Mark Stephen Pierce[4] and worked on Escape from the Planet of the Robot Monsters.[5]

Akers prototyped KlaxinAmigaBASIC in just a few weeks, then ported it line-by-line to C.[4]

As of the spring of 2006, Akers was working as an English teacher in Numazu, Japan.

In 2013, Dave Akers developed Paddle Party,[6] a game for Intellivision released by Elektronite.

References

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  • ^ Star Strike Info – Star Strike Information – Star Strike Release Date
  • ^ a b klax, video game at arcade-history
  • ^ Digital Press – Escape From The Planet Of The Robot Monsters
  • ^ Paddle Party
  • Games

    Developed

  • Peter Pack Rat
  • Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
  • Gauntlet
  • Super Sprint
  • Road Runner
  • Gauntlet II
  • Championship Sprint
  • 720°
  • RoadBlasters
  • APB
  • Xybots
  • Blasteroids
  • Vindicators
  • Toobin'
  • Cyberball
  • Hard Drivin'
  • Tetris
  • Vindicators Part II
  • Escape from the Planet of the Robot Monsters
  • Tournament Cyberball 2072
  • S.T.U.N. Runner
  • Skull & Crossbones
  • 1990s

  • Klax
  • Hydra
  • ThunderJaws
  • Pit-Fighter
  • Race Drivin'
  • Rampart
  • Batman
  • Race Drivin' Panorama
  • Road Riot 4WD
  • Steel Talons
  • Off the Wall
  • Relief Pitcher
  • Guardians of the 'Hood
  • Space Lords
  • T-MEK
  • Primal Rage
  • Wayne Gretzky's 3D Hockey
  • San Francisco Rush: Extreme Racing
  • Mace: The Dark Age
  • San Francisco Rush the Rock: Alcatraz Edition
  • California Speed
  • Gauntlet Legends
  • Rush 2: Extreme Racing USA
  • War Final Assault
  • Road Burners
  • San Francisco Rush 2049
  • Cancelled

  • Beavis and Butt-Head
  • Primal Rage II
  • Published

    1980s

  • Dragon Spirit
  • R.B.I. Baseball
  • Pac-Mania
  • Galaga '88
  • Final Lap
  • Assault
  • Splatterhouse
  • Four Trax
  • 1990s

  • Knuckle Bash
  • World Rally
  • Cops
  • Area 51
  • Maximum Force
  • Radikal Bikers
  • Area 51: Site 4
  • People

  • Brad Fuller
  • Ed Logg
  • Dave Theurer
  • Dave Akers
  • Richard Marriott
  • Pete Kleinow
  • Steve Ritchie
  • See also

  • Namco
  • Tengen
  • Time Warner Interactive
  • Midway Games
  • Atari Games Corp. v. Oman
  • Atari Games Corp. v. Nintendo of America Inc.
  • Category


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