Creator Chat: Alan Murphy

Alan Murphy was at Atari from 1981-1987 and worked on a number of games including APB and Indiana Jones. You can view a full list of Alan Murphy's game credits at Arcade History.com.

Alan also worked on a number of games for the Atari home gaming consoles

Atari 5200
Pacman, Galaxian, Breakout (pong), Soccer, Xari Arena, CounterMeasure, Space Dungeons, and Xevious

Atari 2600
Defender, Bugs Bunny, Demons to Diamonds, Volleyball

For more information on his history, check out the Alan Murphy announcement post on Rotheblog.com

When?
The time for the chat is set for 3pm Eastern Standard Time.

Questions
Question will be moderated. You will need to submit your question to me in order to have it asked. This is so we keep the chat session orderly. Questions will take place for the first :40 minutes, and the last :20 minutes will be open for members to ask questions directly to Alan. To submit questions to ask visit the Alan Murphy chat questions thread.

Rules
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Treat the guest with respect, nothing personal, nothing rude.

If you violate the rules and make our guest feel unwelcome, you will be removed from the chat session. Thanks for the cooperation.

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Comment by MajorHavoc on July 30, 2009 at 3:43pm

1) Is the games list at http://www.arcade-history.com/index.php?page=person&name=Alan+Murphy accurate? Or were there additional games to which you contributted?
2) In what capacity did you work on these games?
3) Was it a requirement that engineers at Atari be short? :-)