- Lyle Rains
Lyle Rains was a senior executive at the arcade game company
Atari , and is sometimes listed as a co-developer of thevideo game "Asteroids", withEd Logg . In fact, Rains called Logg into his office and said "what about a game where you smash asteroids -- big rocks into small rocks?"citequote Rains also served as Executive Producer for a large number of Atari co-op games. An avid gamer, he wrote a popular onlineFAQ for the Atari co-op game "KLAX".Quotations
* "I guess the way I describe it is that I'm the father of Asteroids. Ed Logg is the mother of Asteroids, because he had to live with it for nine months and deliver a finished product. All I had to do was to provide a seed."citequote
External links
* [http://markn.users.netlink.co.uk/Arcade/aster.html History of Atari's Asteroids]
* [http://www.thedoteaters.com/p2_stage2.php Article at The Dot Eaters] , on Rains and the development of Asteroids
* [http://www.arcade-history.com/index.php?page=person&name=Lyle+Rains Lyle Rains at Arcade-History.com]
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