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# Halcyon Days - Contents

## ![HALCYON DAYS][1]  
Contents

> [Back to the title page][2]
> 
> **Preliminaries**
> 
> [How this book is organized][3]   
[INTRODUCTION by John Romero][4]   
[Acknowledgements][5]
> 
> **The Interviews**
> 
> The interviewees are listed alphabetically, but there's no reason to read them in that order. If the list is overwhelming, here are some [suggestions about where to start.][6]
> 
> [Ed Averett][7] \- almost all Odyssey 2 games   
[Danielle Berry][8] \- Cytron Masters, M.U.L.E, Seven Cities of Gold   
[Stephen C. Biggs][9] \- Slamball   
[Adam Billyard][10] \- ElektraGlide, Henri   
[Bill Budge][11] \- Pinball Construction Set, Raster Blaster, Space Album   
[Chris Crawford][12] \- Eastern Front (1941), SCRAM, Balance of Power   
[Steve DeFrisco][13] \- Tropical Trouble, Secret Quest, Atari 2600 Klax   
[David Fox][14] \- Rescue on Fractalus!   
[Jon Freeman & Anne Westfall][15] \- Archon, Archon II, Murder on the Zinderneuf   
[Marc Goodman][16] \- The Bilestoad   
[Dan Gorlin][17] \- Choplifter, Airheart   
[Tom Griner][18] \- many VIC-20 games, including Astroblitz   
[Steve Hales][19] \- Suicide Mission, Slime, Fort Apocalypse, Dimension X   
[John Harris][20] \- Jawbreaker, Mousekattack, Atari 800 Frogger   
[Eugene Jarvis][21] \- Defender, Robotron: 2084   
[David Lubar][22] \- Fantastic Voyage, Flash Gordon, Pastfinder   
[Scott Ludwig][23] \- Quarxon, Catterpiggle   
[Archer MacLean][24] \- Dropzone, International Karate   
[Jeff Minter][25] \- Gridrunner, Revenge of the Mutant Camels   
[Brian Moriarty][26] \- Wishbringer, Trinity   
[Doug Neubauer][27] \- Star Raiders, Solaris   
[Philip Price][28] and [Gary Gilbertson][29] \- The Tail of Beta Lyrae, Alternate Reality   
[Warren Robinett][30] \- Adventure   
[Ed Rotberg][31] \- Battlezone, Blasteroids, S.T.U.N. Runner   
[Warren Schwader][32] \- Thrilogy, Threshold, Sammy Lightfoot   
[Paul Shirley][33] \- Spindizzy   
[Tim Skelly][34] \- Rip-Off, Armor Attack, designer of Star Castle 
> 
> **Other Stuff**
> 
> [The Giant List of Classic Game Programmers][35] (external link)   
[The Systems][36]   
  
[About the author][37]

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