Larry Kaplan

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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.^[1]

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.^[1] He co-founded Activision in late 1979. Since leaving Activision in 1982, Kaplan has worked at Amiga,^[1]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.^[1]

Games[edit]

Atari 2600[edit]

• Combat (1977, Atari) launch title, developed with Joe Decuir, Steve Mayer, and Larry Wagner^[2]
• Air-Sea Battle^[3] (1977, Atari) launch title
• Street Racer^[3] (1977, Atari) launch title
• Brain Games^[3] (1978, Atari)
• Bowling^[3] (1979, Atari)
• Bridge^[3] (1981, Activision)
• Kaboom!^[3] (1981, Activision)

Atari 8-bit family[edit]

• Super Breakout (1979, Atari)^[4] port of the arcade game

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Larry Kaplan's profile at MobyGames
• Listing of Kaplan's library of work at AtariAge
• Interview with Larry Kaplan at Digital Press

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