16 Facts About Dona Bailey

Dona Bailey was born on 1955 and is an American video game programmer and educator.

Dona Bailey was born in 1955 in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Dona Bailey graduated high school early and started attending the University of Arkansas at Little Rock at the age of 16.

Dona Bailey accelerated her education by taking classes year-round, and by the age of 19, she graduated with a bachelor's degree in Psychology with three minors in English, Math and Biology.

Dona Bailey continued her education by earning a master's degree in Math.

Dona Bailey worked there for two years on displays, and microprocessor-based cruise control systems.

Dona Bailey noticed that the display on Space Invaders resembled the display she worked with on the Cadillac at GM.

Dona Bailey later found out that Atari was using the same microprocessor in its games.

Ed Logg, a supervisor at Atari at the time, assigned Dona Bailey to do the programming on Centipede.

Logg said he worked on the game's design, while Dona Bailey did "about half the programming".

Dona Bailey left Atari in 1982 and went to work at Videa, founded by three former Atari employees.

Dona Bailey later took PC contract roles for Activision, working on a two-person game with Paul Allen Newell.

In 1997, Dona Bailey moved back to Arkansas to take care of her aging parents.

At 48 years old, Dona Bailey earned two more master's degrees.

In 2008, Dona Bailey joined the faculty in the department of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock where she taught until her retirement.

Dona Bailey is currently writing scripts for other narrative projects.