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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 Release Date Position

Asteroids

1979

Project Engineer

Atari Soccer

1979

Engineer

Canyon Bomber

1977

Programmer

Fire Truck

1978

Support Programmer

Gridlee

1983

Programmer

Hydro Thunder

1999

Diego Hardware Development

Lunar Lander

1979

Project Engineer

Night Stocker

1986

Machine gun developer

Snake Pit

1984

SAC-I Hardware Developer

Super Bug

1977

Programmer

Trivial Pursuit

1984

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