Arcade Legend Explains Mortal Kombat's Digitized Graphics | Warren Davis

Описание: In 1983 Q*Bert was everywhere in pop culture. in 1992 Mortal Kombat was a gruesome fighting game that kids loved and politicians hated. Both are cultural icons in the video game industry at large.

Warren Davis, an enigmatic trailblazer in the world of arcade game creation, embarked on a remarkable journey that ignited arcade classics for 2 decades. Having emerged from his stint at Bell Laboratories with a vow to never return to engineering, Warren Davis veered into the captivating realm of improv comedy in the vibrant hub of Chicago while studying under The Second City. However, fate had other plans, as his destiny was with gaming when he joined the ranks of Gottlieb. Reawakened as a video game programmer, Warren Davis soared to unimaginable heights with the groundbreaking creation of Q*bert—a game franchise that helped define the golden age of arcades. But Warren Davis's exceptional programming skills didn't stop there; his creation of the revolutionary W-TARG system was key in electrifying Midway's iconic arcade titles with full motion graphics like NBA JAM, Mortal Kombat, T2, Revolution X, and NARC with true to life graphics unreplicable in the home consoles. As a Titan of the Industry, Warren Davis stands as an accomplished software and hardware engineer that rocked the golden age of arcades, infused technological prowess into Williams/Midway and whose legacy is still felt by gaming today.

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