David Crane

Another little known fact about Amazing Tennis - the computer opponents are modeled after real people. In an odd turn of events, I joined a division 3 college tennis team at age 38. ↗

— David Crane

#after #age #amazing #another #college

My background is in hardware design. I found hardware work to be a welcome change from thousands of hours of programming and that led to the designs you mentioned. ↗

— David Crane

#change #design #designs #found #hardware

One week before Pitfall! was to be released, I only gave you one life to play the whole game. I was experimenting with that concept as sort of the ultimate challenge. ↗

— David Crane

#challenge #concept #experimenting #game #gave

Plus, I was a math and science whiz from my first introduction to the subjects. ↗

— David Crane

#i #introduction #math #plus #science

That's right, fall in one pit and start over from the beginning! Well, thankfully my buddies practically tied me to my chair until I put in extra lives and I'm glad they did. ↗

— David Crane

#buddies #chair #did #extra #fall

We wanted to create an environment where if a game player enjoyed the "writing style" of a particular game designer, he or she could look for the next game by that same author and not be disappointed. ↗

— David Crane

#could #create #designer #disappointed #enjoyed

We were advised that nobody could stop us from pursuing our craft simply because we had honed, or even developed that craft while working at a company. ↗

— David Crane

#because #company #could #craft #developed