The Arcade Machine

The Arcade Machine
Publisher(s)Broderbund
Designer(s)Doug Carlston
Chris Jochumson
Programmer(s)Louis Ewens (Atari)
Platform(s)Apple II, Atari 8-bit
Release1982
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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  2. ^ "InfoWorld". InfoWorld Media Group, Inc. 30 January 1984 – via Google Books.