{"id":8124,"date":"2014-02-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/strong-wp.cloud.fruitionqa.com\/2014\/02\/20\/honoring-gaming-innovator-eugene-jarvis\/"},"modified":"2022-06-23T14:42:42","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T18:42:42","slug":"honoring-gaming-innovator-eugene-jarvis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.museumofplay.org\/blog\/honoring-gaming-innovator-eugene-jarvis\/","title":{"rendered":"Honoring Gaming Innovator Eugene Jarvis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Eugene Jarvis at 2011 Midwest Gaming Classic, Photo courtesy of Flickr user Jason through Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5493\" height=\"199\" src=\"https:\/\/www.museumofplay.org\/app\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Eugene-Jarvis-at-2011-Midwest-Gaming-Classic-Photo-courtesy-of-Flickr-user-Jason-through-Creative-Commons-Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs-2.0-Generic-CC-BY-NC-ND-2.0-1.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/>Recently I had the pleasure of attending the 17th Annual D.I.C.E Awards at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Each year, the Academy of Interactive Arts &#038; Sciences celebrates the best interactive games and with its Pioneer Award honors a person whose \u201ccareer-spanning work has helped shape and define the interactive entertainment industry.\u201d This year the Academy added Eugene Jarvis to a distinguished list of previous honorees, including game designers such as David Crane (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestrong.org\/online-collections\/nmop\/22\/46\/110.7387\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>Pitfall!<\/i><\/a>), Ed Logg (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.museumofplay.org\/collections\/6\/109.17155\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>Asteroids<\/i><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icheg.org\/blog\/chegheads\/2013\/05\/gauntlet-by-design-creating-the-four-player-at-once-arcade-game-experience\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>Gauntlet<\/i><\/a>), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icheg.org\/blog\/chegheads\/2012\/09\/bill-budge-pinball-construction-set-and-the-popularization-of-user-customized-video-games\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bill Budge<\/a> (<i>Raster Blaster <\/i>and <i>Pinball Construction Set<\/i> ), and Dave Lebling and Marc Blank (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestrong.org\/online-collections\/nmop\/22\/52\/105.391\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zork<\/a> series).\u00a0 From blinking and bleeping pinball machines to challenging video games, Jarvis helped create some of the most memorable and innovative coin-operated games of the last three decades. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During the late 1970s, Jarvis cut his teeth creating software to run pinball machines in Atari\u2019s newly formed pinball division. He helped produce <i>The Atarians<\/i> (1976),<i> Time 2000 <\/i>(1977), <i>Airborne Avenger <\/i>(1977), <i>Space Riders <\/i>(1978), and <i>Superman<\/i> (1979)\u2014all games known for their massive, wide-body cabinets; George Opperman&#8217;s beautiful artwork; and Jarvis&#8217;s flashing lights and dazzling sound effects. Convinced that Atari&#8217;s pinball machines would never rival Chicago pinball giants such as Williams and Bally, Jarvis left Atari shortly before the company shut down its pinball division in 1979. A few months later, former Atari pinball designer Steve Ritchie invited him to come to Chicago to create games for Williams.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Inspired by Ritchie and programmer Randy Pfeifer&#8217;s work on <i>Flash<\/i> (1979), Jarvis developed the software and sound for Ritchie&#8217;s state-of-the-art pinball machine, <i>Firepower <\/i>(1980), which sold more than 17,000 units. <i>Firepower&#8217;s<\/i> explosive, science fiction-inspired sound package provided the foundation of Williams&#8217;s video game and pinball sound throughout the 1980s. Jarvis also helped create some of the most popular pinball machines of that era, including <i>Space Shuttle <\/i>(1984), <i>High Speed <\/i>(1986), and <i>F-14 Tomcat<\/i> (1987).<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Defender, Photo courtesy of The Strong, Rochester, NY.\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5494\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.museumofplay.org\/app\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Defender-Photo-courtesy-of-The-Strong-Rochester-NY.-1.jpg\" width=\"195\" \/>Jarvis also challenged a generation of arcade goers with ever more sophisticated and difficult video games. In February 1980, with video game profits climbing and the pinball market shrinking, Williams executives asked Jarvis if he would create an original video game. He answered with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestrong.org\/online-collections\/nmop\/22\/67\/109.17175\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>Defender<\/i><\/a> (1980), a game with sound and video effects\u2014including digitized explosions and a mini-map at the top of the screen\u2014unlike any other arcade video game at the time. The side-scrolling space shooter required players to rescue humanoid astronauts in one of the most difficult video games ever produced. <i>Defender<\/i>, as Mark Turmell, a former colleague of Jarvis\u2019s, told the crowd at the D.I.C.E. Awards, \u201cseparated the men from the boys.\u201d In other words, the game separated the first generation of hardcore gamers from casual players and proved that players were ready and willing to drop their quarters\u2014more than $1.5 billion worth\u2014into a complex and insanely difficult game.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cruis\u2019n USA, Photo courtesy of The Strong, Rochester, NY.\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5495\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.museumofplay.org\/blog-wp-images\/chegheads-uploads\/2014\/02\/Cruis\u2019n-USA-Photo-courtesy-of-The-Strong-Rochester-NY.-199x300.jpg\" width=\"199\" \/>Jarvis followed <i>Defender<\/i> with other challenging arcade classics such as the dual joystick shooter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestrong.org\/online-collections\/nmop\/22\/67\/109.17263\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>Robotron: 2084<\/i><\/a> (1982), the satirical shoot &#8217;em up <i>Smash TV <\/i>(1990), and the exhilarating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestrong.org\/online-collections\/nmop\/22\/67\/112.4850\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>Cruis&#8217;n <\/i><\/a>driving series (1994-1999). Today, Jarvis is President of <a href=\"https:\/\/rawthrills.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Raw Thrills<\/a>, where he still makes unique coin-operated games such as the War on Terror-themed first-person shooter <i>Target: Terror<\/i> (2004) and the new superhero vehicular combat game <i>Batman<\/i> (2013).<\/p>\n<p>ICHEG congratulates Jarvis on his Pioneer Award and we will honor him with a game of <i>Robotron: 2084 <\/i>in The Stong&#8217;s <i>eGameRevolution <\/i>exhibit.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s your favorite Eugene Jarvis game?\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I had the pleasure of attending the 17th Annual D.I.C.E Awards at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. 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