Lyle Rains was a senior executive at the arcade game company

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and is sometimes, with

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, listed as a co- developer of the

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''. In fact, Rains called Logg into his office and said "Well, why don’t we have a game where you shoot the rocks and blow them up?". Rains also served as Executive Producer for a large number of Atari coin-op games. An avid gamer, he wrote a popular online

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for the Atari coin-op game '' KLAX''. He joined old compatriot video game designers in a new company called Innovative Leisure headed by Seamus Blackley in 2012 to design games for phones.

Game credits

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Tank A tank is an armoured fighting vehicle intended as a primary offensive weapon in front-line ground combat. Tank designs are a balance of heavy firepower, strong armour, and battlefield mobility provided by tracks and a powerful engine; ...

'' (1974) *''

Jet Fighter Fighter aircraft (early on also ''pursuit aircraft'') are military aircraft designed primarily for air-to-air combat. In military conflict, the role of fighter aircraft is to establish air superiority of the battlespace. Domination of the air ...

'' (1975) *''

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'' (1975) *''

Sprint 2 ''Sprint 2'' is a two player overhead-view arcade racing video game released in 1976 by Kee Games, a wholly owned subsidiary of Atari, and distributed by Namco in Japan. While earlier driving games had computer-controlled cars that moved along ...

'' (1976) - also credited with designing the well-known 'Atari arcade font'. *''Sprint 4'' (1977) *''

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'' (1978) *'' Sky Raider ''(1978) - game designer *''

'' (1979) *''

Hard Drivin' ''Hard Drivin'' is a sim racing arcade video game developed by Atari Games in 1989. Players test drive a sports car on courses that emphasize stunts and speed. It features one of the first 3D polygon driving environments via a simulator cabine ...

'' (1988) *''

Race Drivin' ''Race Drivin'' is a sim racing arcade video game released by Atari Games in August 1990. Players test drive several high-powered sports cars on stunt and speed courses. The game is the sequel to 1989's '' Hard Drivin and was part of a new ge ...

'' (1990) *'' Space Lords'' (1992)

References

External links

History of Atari's Asteroids

Article at The Dot Eaters
on Rains and the development of Asteroids
Lyle Rains at Arcade-History.com
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