Eugene Jarvis
Eugene Jarvis
Eugene Peyton Jarvisis an American game designer and programmer, known for producing pinball machines for Atari and video games for Williams Electronics. Most notable amongst his works are the seminal arcade video games Defender and Robotron: 2084 in the early 1980s, and the Cruis'n series of driving games for Midway Games in the 1990s. He co-founded Vid Kidz in the early 1980s and currently leads his own development studio, Raw Thrills Inc. In 2008 Eugene Jarvis was named the first...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
CountryUnited States of America
The great times are when you put a game on location and see others play it for the first time. After all, we are really kind of an entertainer. You perform for the joy of the audience.
I think managers have realized that most software people are slightly brain damaged, that they're off on their own planets.
Video games are ubiquitous now.
In video you are starting with nothing but a black screen. There's no game there. With pinball you at least start with that basic concept, but not with video. The challenge of going from no game to something today is only different because you have to create something so damn fun people will pay $1.00 every two minutes to play it.
I'm an action player. I like to be aggressive. I don't like to be on the run. I like to feel like I have the fates in my hands and that through my skill or lack thereof I control my fate.
I was originally going to become a biochemist, but it just got way too complicated.
To me the arcade experience is the ultimate gaming experience.
Money can be made later, but time is lost forever.
I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager.
The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games.