# 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 Academ‮…

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 dest‮…

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 overshadowe‮…

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 wor‮…

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 A‮…

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…