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Save Mary
''Save Mary'' is a prototype video game designed by Tod Frye and made for the Atari 2600. The game involves Mary who is trapped in a valley that is slowly filling with water. The player must operate a crane to move blocks to allow Mary to escape the rising water and eventually be carried to safety by the player. Frye had years of experience working for various companies including Atari where he made the Atari 2600 port of ''Pac-Man (Atari 2600 video game), Pac-Man'' (1982). Following the video game crash of 1983, he continued to develop games for the system at companies like Epyx and in 1989 at Catalyst Technologies#Axlon, Axlon where he began developing ''Save Mary''. The game was never released as the company began focusing on making games for the Atari Lynx. Prototypes of ''Save Mary'' were later discovered and released as bootlegs cartridges and online. The game had an official release in 2005, being included on the Atari Flashback 2 dedicated console. The game had since been r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tod Frye
Tod R. Frye (born 1955) is an American Programmer, computer programmer once employed by Atari, Inc., and is most notable for developing the home adaptation of ''Pac-Man (Atari 2600 video game), Pac-Man'' for the Atari 2600 video computer system. Following the collapse of Atari he worked at video game and computer game companies such as The 3DO Company, 3DO and Pronto Games. In 2015 he was working as Senior Embedded Software Engineer for the SunPower, SunPower Corporation, where he worked in the field of IoT, developing hardware and software systems for monitoring solar power systems. His work extended from 'edge' devices, collecting and transmitting device telemetry, to cloud hosted Big Data systems for storing, analyzing, and reporting device data. Leaving Sunpower in late 2016, Frye joined Bonsai AI, which was developing an artificial intelligence platform, focusing primarily on reinforcement learning. Atari Pac-Man Frye landed the 2600 ''Pac-Man'' project in early 1981. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
