Larry Kaplan is an American video game designer and video game programmer who, along with other ex-Atari, Inc. programmers, co-founded Activision.
Kaplan studied at the University of California, Berkeley from 1968 through 1974 and graduated with a degree in Computer Science.
He started at Atari, Inc. in August 1976 and wrote video games for the Atari Video Computer System, including two of the console's launch titles: Air-Sea Battle and Street Racer. Kaplan was one of the developers of the operating system for the Atari 400 and 800 home computers. He co-founded Activision in late 1979. Since leaving Activision in 1982, Kaplan has worked at Amiga,Atari Games, Silicon Graphics, Worlds of Wonder, and MicroUnity.
He was hired as Lead Technical Director on the 1998 movie Antz, but stayed with the project for only a few months.
Games
Atari 2600
Combat (1977, Atari) launch title, developed with Joe Decuir, Steve Mayer, and Larry Wagner Air-Sea Battle (1977, Atari) launch title Street Racer (1977, Atari) launch title Brain Games (1978, Atari) Bowling (1979, Atari) Bridge (1981, Activision) Kaboom! (1981, Activision)
Atari 8-bit family
Super Breakout (1979, Atari) port of the arcade game
References
External links
Listing of Kaplan's library of work at AtariAge
Interview with Larry Kaplan at Digital Press
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) University of California, Berkeley alumni American video game designers Video game programmers American computer programmers Game Developers Conference Pioneer Award recipients