Eugene Peyton Jarvis is an American game designer and video game programmer, known for producing pinball machines for Williams Electronics and video games for Atari. Most notable among his works are the seminal arcade video games Defender and Robotron: 2084 in the early 1980s
Ported the original Wiliams Defender to the Atari ST/STE in 2025 using a mixture of C and 68K assembly.
One of the original developers at Williams in the early 1980s. Worked on Defender as part of Eugene Jarvis' team.
One of the original developers at Williams in the early 1980s. Worked on Defender as part of Eugene Jarvis' team.
One of the original developers at Williams in the early 1980s. Worked on Defender as part of Eugene Jarvis' team.
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A message from sark02: "This effort is a port of the original Defender 6809E assembler source code that's in the HistoricalSource repo on github. My only credit is for the technical port to the ST. The game mechanics, algorithms, etc, are by the original Defender authors Eugene Jarvis, Sam Dicker, Larry DeMar, et. al. If it feels like Defender then that's because of them. If it doesn't, then that's because of me.
Just want to make sure my level of credit is appropriate. I certainly can't take credit for Defender, and ports such as Jeff Minter's Defender II is a much more original and creative effort than mine."
The history about Defender (Williams) can be found on Wikipedia.
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