Lyle Rains

Lyle Rains was a senior executive at the arcade game company Atari and is sometimes, with Ed Logg, listed as a co-developer of the video game Asteroids. In fact, Rains called Logg into his office and said "what about a game where you smash asteroids -- big rocks into small rocks?" Rains also served as Executive Producer for a large number of Atari coin-op games. An avid gamer, he wrote a popular online FAQ for the Atari coin-op game KLAX.

Game credits

• Tank (1974)
• Jet Fighter (1975)
• Steeplechase (1975)
• Sprint 2 (1976) - also credited with designing the well-known 'Atari arcade font'.
• Sprint 4 (1977)
• Atari Football (1978)
• Sky Raider (1978) - game designer
• Asteroids (1979)
• Hard Drivin' (1988)
• Race Drivin' (1990)
• Space Lords (1992)

Quotations

• "I guess the way I describe it is that I'm the father of Asteroids. Ed Logg is the mother of Asteroids, because he had to live with it for nine months and deliver a finished product. All I had to do was to provide a seed."

External links

• History of Atari's Asteroids
• Article at The Dot Eaters, on Rains and the development of Asteroids
• Lyle Rains at Arcade-History.com