The Arcade Machine | |
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Publisher(s) | Broderbund |
Designer(s) | Doug Carlston Chris Jochumson |
Programmer(s) | Louis Ewens (Atari) |
Platform(s) | Apple II, Atari 8-bit |
Release | 1982 |
Genre(s) | Game creation system, fixed shooter |
The Arcade Machine is a game creation system written by Chris Jochumson and Doug Carlston for the Apple II and published by Broderbund in 1982.[1] Louis Ewens ported it to Atari 8-bit computers.[1] Broderbund ran a contest from January–June 1984 where the best user-created game was awarded a prize of $1,500 in hardware and software.[2] Jochumson also wrote Track Attack for Broderbund.
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