viedogame: Gauntlet designer named AIAS Pioneer

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Gauntlet designer named AIAS Pioneer Nov 18th 2011, 23:41 Ed Logg to be honored at 2012 Interactive Achievement Awards for seminal work on Atari's arcade hits. The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences has for the past couple of years honored game-industry pioneers as part of its Interactive Achievement Awards. With the AIAS-run DICE Summit set to return to Las Vegas February 8-10, the organization has announced this year's IAA Pioneer Award will go to Ed Logg. Ed Logg's credits include Gauntlet, Asteroids, and Centipede. Having joined Atari in the late 1970s, Logg contributed to the development of such iconic arcade hits as Super Breakout (1978), Asteroids (1979), Centipede (1980), and Millipede (1982). However, Logg's crowning achievement was Atari's Gauntlet (1985), and he was instrumental in the decision to include the game's then-novel cooperative multiplayer aspect. "As an innovator, game designer, and programmer, Ed's work contributed to the creation of some of the most iconic entertainment properties--including Asteroids, Centipede, and Gauntlet--arcade games that continue to shape the way that modern games are designed today," the AIAS said in a statement. Logg will be the third recipient of the AIAS's Pioneer Award. Pitfall creator David Crane was given the award in 2010, and Pinball Construction Set designer Bill Budge was handed the award at this year's ceremony.

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