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>Work History... >1977: Designed and wrote Mattel Electronic Football software >The must have Christmas toy of 1977 Never mind my previous criticism, this gu

• djmips 5y ago
  He's not on the patent and the author of the shipping game was Mark Lesser. https://www.digitpress.com/library/interviews/interview_mark_lesser.html https://www.digitpress.com/library/interviews/interview_mark... Patent https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/1b/46/29/d3532d0e0b1704/US4162792.pdf https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/1b/46/29/d3532d0...
  • djmips 5y ago
    And the source code from the patent was tracked down by Sean Riddle and he found 'George J. Klose' on the printout who was one of the patent authors. Despite this, I suppose it's possible that Mr O'Dowd did code the 6502 prototype and wasn't given credit in the patent. https://seanriddle.com/footballproto.html https://seanriddle.com/footballproto.html