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 game for Intellivision released by Elektronite.
Pray for Uncle Dave. Aka Dave Akers. He was injured badly recently and recovering.
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