Rob Fulop is an American game programmer who created two of the Atari 2600's biggest hits: the port of arcade game Missile Command and 1982's Demon Attack, which won Electronic Games' Game of the Year award.
10 Facts About Rob Fulop
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Rob Fulop grew up in Oakland, California where was first introduced to computers via a teletype in Skyline High School in 1974, which he used to create simple programs in BASIC such as a coin flipper and a game similar to Nim.
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On 17 July 1981, a group of employees from Atari's home console division including Rob Fulop quit their jobs to form their own company, Imagic, urged on by the success of the ex-Atari employees who formed Activision and the lack of credit they were receiving for their work at Atari.
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Rob Fulop developed the studio's debut game, Demon Attack, which went on to become one of the best selling 2600 games of all time.
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Rob Fulop then decided to release the game as freeware via a bulletin board players could connect to in order to download the game.
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Rob Fulop was later hired by Nolan Bushnell's company Axlon as part of their NEMO team, Rob Fulop created Night Trap for the system due to the console's cancellation the game was shelved and later released on the Sega CD.
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Fulton later created Max Magic for the Philips CD-I, the game consisted of a fortune teller and magician who would perform magic tricks with the aid the player, who'd presumably use it to perform a magic show, Rob Fulop worked with Max Maven on the game, who authored the tricks and recorded some of the voices.
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In October, Rob Fulop, who had previously suffered from a heart attack in 2005, began experiencing chest pains and had to have a heart operation, he informed his team leader that he would need some time off to undergo the operation; Rob Fulop was terminated from the team nine days later and from the company altogether soon after the operation, he sued the company for violating the Fair Employment and Housing Act alleging that it had discriminated against him on the basis of age and disability.
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Rob Fulop plays poker semi-professionally, competing in various high limit poker games in northern California.
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In January 2004, Rob Fulop went to Las Vegas to visit Antonio Esfandiari and Phil Laak, while there, he wrote a humorous guest column for Bluff, a poker magazine, about his trip there and his stay at Esfandiari's house, the piece was well received, leading to Rob Fulop writing a semi-regular column for the magazine.