Dave Akers

Dave Akers is a video game programmer and designer who worked on the M Network ports of BurgerTime,[1] Bump 'n' Jump,[2] and Star Strike[3] for the Atari 2600. He co-designed the 1989 arcade game Klax with Mark Stephen Pierce[4] and worked on Escape from the Planet of the Robot Monsters.[5]

Akers prototyped Klax in AmigaBASIC in just a few weeks, then ported it line-by-line to C.[4]

As of the spring of 2006, Akers was working as an English teacher in Numazu, Japan.

In 2013, Dave Akers developed Paddle Party,[6] a homebrew game for Intellivision released by Elektronite.

References
  1. burgertime Atari 2600
  2. Bump 'N' Jump Info - Bump 'N' Jump Information - Bump 'N' Jump Release Date
  3. Star Strike Info - Star Strike Information - Star Strike Release Date
  4. klax, video game at arcade-history
  5. Digital Press - Escape From The Planet Of The Robot Monsters
  6. Paddle Party


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