What author who created an arcade flight video game is a pseudonym?
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David Michaels (author) "David Michaels" is a pseudonym for the authors of novels in the "Splinter Cell", "EndWar", "H.A.W.X", and "Ghost Recon" series, all of which were created by Ubisoft Entertainment and developed under Ubisoft's Tom Clancy license. The novel series began as video games for various console systems as well as the PC. As of February 2011, "Michaels" has released six "Splinter Cell" novels, two "EndWar" novels, two "Ghost Recon" novels, and one "H.A.W.X" novel.
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Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X is a 2009 arcade flight video game developed by Ubisoft Bucharest and published by Ubisoft for Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, and by Gameloft for BlackBerry PlayBook, iOS, Palm Pre, Android and Symbian^3. It was released for Xbox and PlayStation in North America on March 3, 2009, for Windows on March 17, for iOS on December 9, for BlackBerry on January 8, 2010, for Palm Pre on April 2, for Android on September 13, and for Symbian on January 16, 2011. A Wii version was announced, but was ultimately canceled. In September 2010, a sequel titled "Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X 2" was released for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The Microsoft Windows and Wii versions were released in November 2010.
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John Newcomer John Newcomer (b. 1955) is an American game designer, best known for being the designer and lead developer of the 1982 pioneering arcade game "Joust". He designed, animated, and produced multiple games for Williams Electronics, Midway Games, Cybiko, and MumboJumbo.
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Bill Kunkel (gaming) Bill Kunkel (July 21, 1950 – September 4, 2011) was a graphic novelist, and pioneering professional wrestling and video game journalist and critic from the 1970s until his death in the early 2010s. During his time working with the video game industry, Kunkel authored numerous strategy guides, co-designed several video games, served as an expert witness in three court cases, and taught courses in Game Design for the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). Kunkel served as the executive editor of "Electronic Games Magazine" and the editor-in-chief of "Tips & Tricks" magazine, writing columns and comics for several magazines and game sites. He often wrote under nicknames, the most common of which were "The Game Doctor" (for video game topics), and "Potshot" (for professional wrestling topics).
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Scott Adams Scott Raymond Adams (born June 8, 1957) is the creator of the "Dilbert" comic strip and the author of several nonfiction works of satire, commentary, business, and general speculation.
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Stephen Tall Stephen Tall was the most common pseudonym of American science fiction writer Compton Newby Crook (June 14, 1908 – January 15, 1981).
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Jeff Lee (video game artist) Jeff Lee (born 1952 in Elkhart, Indiana) is the original video artist at D. Gottlieb and Company. He is best known for creating the character of Q*Bert, the popular arcade game from 1982.
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Mario Mario (Japanese: マリオ , Hepburn: Mario ) ( ; ] ) is a fictional character in the "Mario" video game franchise, owned by Nintendo and created by Japanese video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto. Serving as the company's mascot and the eponymous protagonist of the series, Mario has appeared in over 200 video games since his creation. Depicted as a short, pudgy, Italian plumber who resides in the Mushroom Kingdom, his adventures generally center upon rescuing Princess Peach from the Koopa villain Bowser. His younger brother and sidekick is Luigi.
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Anti-Aircraft (video game) Anti-Aircraft is a two-player arcade game by Atari, Inc, originally released in 1975. The game is sometimes referred to as Anti-Aircraft II, denoting the two-player aspect of the game.
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Defender (1981 video game) Defender is an arcade video game developed and released by Williams Electronics in February 1981. A horizontally scrolling shoot 'em up, the game is set on a fictional planet where the player must defeat waves of invading aliens while protecting astronauts. Development was led by Eugene Jarvis, a pinball programmer at Williams; "Defender" was Jarvis' first video game project and drew inspiration from "Space Invaders" and "Asteroids".
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Formula One Arcade Formula One Arcade is a racing video game developed by Studio 33 and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation. The drivers featured on the front cover, from left to right, are Eddie Irvine, Michael Schumacher and Jarno Trulli.
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Scorpia (journalist) Scorpia is the pseudonym of a video game journalist who was active from the early 1980s through the late 1990s. She wrote for "Computer Gaming World", performing reviews on role-playing video games and adventure games. Scorpia was known for harsh criticism of video games she disliked. She was fired after "CGW" was sold to Ziff-Davis in 1999 and subsequently retired from games journalism. Her pseudonym is based on a character she created in a role-playing game.
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Ace Combat Ace Combat (エースコンバット; "Ēsu Konbatto" ) is a hybrid flight simulation action video game series featuring 18 games published by the Japanese company Bandai Namco Games and produced by Project Aces, an internal development team. The series emphasizes fast-paced action and dramatic plots, and has established itself as one of the longest running arcade flight action franchises.
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Psikyo Psikyo was a Japanese video game developer founded in 1992. Psikyo was an offshoot formed from the Video System team that created the "Aero Fighters" series. The team mainly developed arcade games, mostly vertically scrolling shoot 'em ups and erotic mahjong games. The popularity of these arcade games led to them being ported to home consoles, and then ultimately led to Psikyo developing games for consoles.
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Accolade's Comics Accolade's Comics (or Accolade Comics in the game) is an adventure game released in 1987. Published by Accolade and developed by Distinctive Software, the game intersperses arcade-style games into its plot. "Computer Gaming World" disliked the repetitive action sequences, but admired the game's satirical tone and writing.
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Missile Command Missile Command is a 1980 arcade game developed and published by Atari, Inc. and licensed to Sega for European release. It was designed by Dave Theurer, who also designed Atari's vector graphics game "Tempest" from the same year. The 1981 Atari 2600 port of "Missile Command" by Rob Fulop sold over 2.5 million copies and became the third most popular cartridge for the system.
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Airline Tycoon Airline Tycoon is a business simulation game by Thomas Holz and Robert Kleinert, in which the player must successfully manage an airline. The original was developed by Spellbound, and published by Infogrames, however, the succeeding versions were published by a variety of publishers. The original "Airline Tycoon" was created for Windows, however, the later "Deluxe" version was also ported to Linux, Mac OS X, MorphOS, ZETA, iOS and Android. In this game, like all Tycoon computer games, the objective is to become a tycoon, and in this case, an “Airline Tycoon.” This is achieved through the balance of income and expenditures.
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Merritt k merritt k, formerly Merritt Kopas, is a Canadian video game designer and developer, as well as an author and a zine creator.
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Zaxxon Zaxxon (ザクソン ) is a 1982 isometric shooter arcade game developed and released by Sega. Some sources claim that Japanese electronics company Ikegami Tsushinki also worked on the development of "Zaxxon". The game gives the player the experience of flying a fighter craft through a fortress while shooting at enemy entities (missiles, enemy gunfire, etc.) The object of the game is to hit as many targets as possible without being shot down or running out of fuel—which can be replenished, paradoxically, by blowing up fuel drums.
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Schizm: Mysterious Journey Schizm: Mysterious Journey is an adventure-genre computer game created by Detalion and LK Avalon and published by DreamCatcher Games. It was authored by acclaimed Australian science fiction writer Terry Dowling.
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Matt Braddock Matt Braddock, VC and bar, is a fictional World War II bomber pilot who first appeared in prose adventures the story paper "The Rover" in 1952, and later as a comic strip in "The Victor" (1961–83) and "Warlord" (1974). Some of his stories were published in book form as "I Flew With Braddock".
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Sopwith (video game) Sopwith is a side scrolling shoot 'em up created by David L. Clark of BMB Compuscience in 1984. It was originally written to run on the IBM PC under MS-DOS. The game involves piloting a Sopwith biplane, attempting to bomb enemy buildings while avoiding fire from enemy planes and various other obstacles.