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Lyle Rains was a senior executive at the arcade game company Atari and is sometimes, with Ed Logg, listed as a co-developer of the video game Asteroids. In fact, Rains called Logg into his office and said "Well, why don’t we have a game where you shoot the rocks and blow them up?".[1] Rains also served as Executive Producer for a large number of Atari coin-op games. An avid gamer, he wrote a popular online FAQ for the Atari coin-op game KLAX.

He joined old compatriot video game designers in a new company called Innovative Leisure headed by Seamus Blackley in 2012 to design games for phones. [2][3]

Game credits

References

  1. ^ William Cassidy. "Asteroids". ClassicGaming. IGN. Archived from the original on October 29, 2012. Retrieved January 6, 2014.
  2. ^ "Atari "dream team" reforms to make games for "the new arcade", iOS". Eurogamer.net. 3 February 2012. Retrieved 17 May 2015.
  3. ^ "The Founding Fathers of Video Games". Time. Retrieved 2021-10-03.

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