Raster Blaster

Raster Blaster
Developer(s)Bill Budge
Publisher(s)BudgeCo
Platform(s)Apple II, Atari 8-bit
Release1981
Genre(s)Pinball
Mode(s)Single-player

Bill Budge's Raster Blaster (or Rasterblaster on the disk label) is a home computer pinball simulation written by Bill Budge for the Apple II and published in 1981 by Budge's company, BudgeCo. It was ported to the Atari 8-bit computers.[1] Raster Blaster resembles the Williams Firepower table from 1980.[citation needed]

While not the first pinball game for home computers, Raster Blaster set a higher bar for visual fidelity, and the next several years saw a flurry of Apple II pinball titles: David's Midnight Magic (1982), Night Mission Pinball (1982), and Budge's own Pinball Construction Set (1983).

  1. ^ "Raster Blaster". Atari Mania.