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Wendi Allen

Profile

Wendi Allen (formally Howard Delman) worked on some of the greatest arcade hits, including on Lunar Lander, Asteroids, Battlezone, and Hydro Thunder. Wendi joined Atari (Coin-op) as a game engineer in the Campbell, CA Division Street location in July 1976 and initially reported to Lyle Rains. Wendi developed the vector generator display system used in Lunar Lander and Asteroids. After leaving Atari in October 1981, Wendi would go on to do work for many other companies, including Midway Games, Sente, and Videa.

Games

Game Position

Asteroids

Project Engineer

Atari Soccer

Engineer

Canyon Bomber

Programmer

Fire Truck

Support Programmer

Gridlee

Programmer

Hydro Thunder

Diego Hardware Development

Lunar Lander

Project Engineer

Night Stocker

Machine gun developer

Snake Pit

SAC-I Hardware Developer

Super Bug

Programmer

Trivial Pursuit

Video Hardware Design

Companies

Company Role Years

Atari

Engineer

1976 - 1981

Videa

Founder, CFO, & VP of Engineering

Additional References (logged in members often see more)

  1. Other (External): Allen Design web site (https://www.rawbw.com/~allen/)