1. Bill Budge was born on August 11,1954 and is a retired American video game programmer and designer.
18 Facts About Bill Budge
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Bill Budge is best known for the Apple II games Raster Blaster and Pinball Construction Set.
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Bill Budge purchased an Apple II and began writing games.
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Bill Budge enjoyed it so much that he dropped out of school and became a game programmer.
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Bill Budge's first game was a Pong clone, called Penny Arcade, which he wrote using his own custom graphics routines.
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Bill Budge traded the completed game to Apple Computer for a Centronics printer.
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Bill Budge was shocked when he got his first check for USD$7,000.
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Bill Budge created the 3-D Game Tool, a program allowing rudimentary creation of wireframe images on the Apple II for use in games or other applications.
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Bill Budge first became interested in writing a pinball game while working for Apple in 1981.
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Bill Budge followed Raster Blaster with Pinball Construction Set, a more general tool which allows users to create arbitrary pinball tables, including how the components are wired together.
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Bill Budge wrote MousePaint, which was a program for the Apple II similar to the Macintosh program MacPaint.
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Bill Budge found that MousePaint was easier to use and more efficient, and predicted that the mouse would receive more software support than the pad.
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Bill Budge ported Pinball Construction Set to the Sega Genesis, which was published by Electronic Arts in 1993 as Virtual Pinball.
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Shortly afterward, Bill Budge worked for 3DO, creating a 3D engine for Blade Force.
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Bill Budge remained with the company for nine years until its demise in 2003.
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Bill Budge returned to EA but stayed for less than two years.
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Bill Budge joined Sony Computer Entertainment in 2004 as Lead Tools Programmer.
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Bill Budge left Sony after six years for Google in 2010.