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Dan Kitchen

Activision Game Designer
Dan Kitchen – As passionate game player and veteran Activision Game Designer, Dan Kitchen is credited with producing over 240 commercially released games across 15 game platforms.  During his career Dan is renowned for designing such Atari 2600 classics as CRACKPOTS™, GHOSTBUSTERS™, TOMCAT: THE F-14 FIGHTER SIMULATOR™, CROSSBOW™ and KUNG-FU MASTER™.  Dan has recently released CASEY'S GOLD!™ for the Atari 2600 which has been received with rave reviews.
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.