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 "Well, why don’t we have a game where you shoot the rocks and blow them up?".^[1] 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.

He joined old compatriot video game designers in a new company called Innovative Leisure headed by Seamus Blackley in 2012 to design games for phones. ^[2]

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)

References

1. William Cassidy. "Asteroids". ClassicGaming. IGN. Retrieved January 6, 2014.
2. "Atari "dream team" reforms to make games for "the new arcade", iOS". Eurogamer.net. Retrieved 17 May 2015.

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