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If one person could be chosen to hold the title of "early 1980s game industry folk hero," John Harris would be a leading candidate. He made a splash–and a good amount of money–in 1981 with "Jawbreaker" (a "Pac-Man" variant notable for being one of the first third party games for the Atari 800 to make good use of the special hardware in that machine) and again in 1982 with a stellar port of "Frogger." Both games were from Sierra On-Line.
His exploits were chronicled in Steven Levy's Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, a popular book that leaned hard on his supposed troubles with women and difficulties with Sierra On-Line founder Ken Williams.
After leaving the game industry in the mid-1980s, John made his mark in the information display business, writing software enabling Atari 8-bit computers to display channel listings on cable TV and flight schedules in airports. He is still programming the Atari 8-bit machines today, in addition to newer game systems.
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Games by John Harris
Title Year Credits Jawbreaker 1981 By Frogger 1983 Original Design (Atari) Mouskattack 1982 Designer
Contributions by John Harris
Title Year Credits Hoyle Casino 2000 Lead Programmer Quest for Glory V: Dragon Fire 1998 System Software Engineer, A.I. System Software Engineer (courtesy of Pulsar Interactive) Jawbreaker 1982 Programmer Frogger 1982 Programmer, Original Programming (Atari) Hoyle Casino 2000 Animation, Art, Sound
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- John Harris on MobyGames
- John Harris on IMDb
