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David Crane

Activision Video game designer
David Crane – David Crane is one of the most successful designers of entertainment software in the world. His award winning video games, led by Pitfall!™, Ghostbusters™, A Boy and His Blob™, and Amazing Tennis™ are acknowledged as some of the most innovative and popular in the interactive entertainment industry.“ – Classic Gaming Expo “Crane helped define Activision’s earlier efforts with games like Pitfall!, Decathlon, Ghostbusters (a particularly great effort considering most licensed games — especially in the earlier days of the industry — were terrible to the point of almost causing it to cave in on itself) and Little Computer People (arguably the first modern digital pet).” — IGN
12:30 pm Activision/Audacity crew -Seminar Room -

Saturday 15th of Nov

FROM PITFALL TO CASEY'S GOLD - DESIGNING NEW RETRO GAMES FOR THE ATARI 2600

Garry Kitchen, David Crane and Dan Kitchen will have a panel and it will focus on the following two areas:

  • Our extensive history in the video game industry from our working with Nolan Bushnell who founded Atari, to our founding of Activision and the hundreds of games we've developed over the years. We'll focus on stories and anecdotes pertaining to some of our most successful games such as PITFALL™, PITFALL II™, KEYSTONE KAPERS™, DONKEY KONG™ (2600) and GHOSTBUSTERS!™.
  • What it's like to design and develop new games in 2025 for retro systems such as the Atari 2600. How development differs and how it's the same as when we were creating classic games in 1980.