David Crane Gets Pioneer Award

David Crane, the man who created the Pitfall game and more recently the remake of his game 'A Boy and his Blob' has received the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences Pioneer Award for his role in videogames first foundations.

He will officially get it on February 18th at the D.I.C.E. Summit's 13th annual Interactive Achievement Awards held in Las Vegas. Crane commented:

"The Atari 2600 was by far the most challenging platform in the history of gaming. And the very challenges that had many people tearing out their hair made it the most fun for me, unlike today, games for the Atari game system were developed by a single person. Each of us did all of the design, graphics, music, sound effects and even the play-testing for our own games.”

Congrats David!