Easter Eggs, Adventure, And VR Frippery

Here’s a new Gamasutra article which is very GSW-worthy - a ‘Playing Catch Up’ column featuring Adventure creator Warren Robinett, who made the first video game ‘easter egg’, of course - and also founded educational game firm The Learning Company, which I didn’t know.
Anyhow, there’s some good stuff in here: “Adventure… capitalized on the console’s success enormously well. By the end of the decade, there were around 1.8 million Atari 2600 owners, and 1 million of them were playing Robinett’s game. However, despite the incredible salesâ€â€?at $25 each, no lessâ€â€?its creator was still on a salary of $22,000 a year, and soon decided to leave the company…
“I was tired of working, and Atari management didn’t value the 2600 designers,â€Â? he says. “Boy were they stupid, because the designers all quit and started competing companies.â€Â? Years later, he notes with some enthusiasm, the company “came crashing down, like a […]

Original post by editors@gamesetwatch.com (simonc) and software by Elliott Back