# Ed Logg

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TDE EP19 - Asteroids, Centipede and Gauntlet programmer Ed Logg

Ed Logg, AKA Super Duper Game Guy, is the programmer’s programmer. Cited by his contemporaries as one of the all-time greats, Ed designed and co-developed arcade smash hits such as Asteroids, Centipede, Millipede, Super Breakout and Gauntlet. In 2011, Logg was awarded a Pioneer Award by the Academy…

Retro Renegades - Episode: Half-Assed

Asteroids is a space-themed multidirectional shooter arcade game designed by Lyle Rains and Ed Logg released in November 1979 by Atari, Inc.[4] The player controls a single spaceship in an asteroid field which is periodically traversed by flying saucers. The object of the game is to shoot and destr…

Retronew Legends: Ed Logg

The first Game Creator to hit rockstar status. Ed Logg was behind the video games industry's first string of mega-hits. Xybots, Asteroids, Video pinball, Gauntlet, Centipede, Millipede, Super Breakout, and many more. Come and join us for a look back at the first influential figure in video games! …

Diary Of An Arcade Employee Podcast Ep. 039 – Asteroids

For this episode of the Diary of An Arcade Employee Podcast I am tackling a big one – none other than 1979’s Asteroids by Atari. As I mention in the show itself this classic arcade game was only the second title produced by Atari that featured Vector graphics although it most certainly overshadowed…

Diary Of An Arcade Employee Podcast Ep. 033 – Centipede

Friends, with the start of a brand new year, it’s time to roll out another episode of the Diary podcast. For this show I discuss Atari’s 1981 classic fixed shooter, Centipede! As I mention on the episode itself this show was supposed to be published much sooner but due to time constraints like work…

Ep.166 – The Midnight Dungeon Crawl: When Dungeons and Dragons Dropped Into the Arcade Gauntlet

In 1985, Atari released Gauntlet, Ed Logg’s multiplayer dungeon crawler inspired by his son’s love of Dungeons & Dragons and the Atari computer game Dandy. In this episode, we explore Logg’s journey from Asteroids and Centipede to creating a four-player arcade experience that changed the industry. …

The Games of Ed Logg

TCW Podcast Episode 217 - The Games of Ed Logg   Ed Logg had a long and distinguished career in Atari's coin-op division. Initially aspiring to be a math professor, his path changed after encountering the Atari 2600 at a friend's Christmas party. While at Atari, Logg created the legendary game As…

The 10 Best Selling Atari Games

TCW Podcast Episode 266 - The 10 Best Selling Atari Games   An internal Atari document visible in the background of the documentary Once Upon Atari provides a rare look at the company’s best-selling VCS games during the years leading up to, and just after, the video game crash. The Atari VCS was …