Developer: David Crane

David Crane began programming at Atari in the late 1970s and left in 1979 to co-found Activision, the company founded by programmers who had left Atari. He became one of the best-known designers on the console, and the site has 14 games that carry his name.
His Atari years include the western duel Outlaw, his first finished game, the 1979 Canyon Bomber port, Slot Machine and an unreleased Boggle prototype. At Activision he made Dragster and Fishing Derby for the company’s first releases in 1980, then Freeway, Laser Blast and Grand Prix. A few highlights:

Pitfall! (1982): the jungle adventure that became one of the best-selling 2600 games.
Pitfall II: Lost Caverns (1984): the sequel, with a custom chip in the cartridge that made four-voice music possible.
Freeway (1981): a chicken crossing ten lanes of traffic.
Dragster (1980): a drag race that lasts only seconds but demands perfect gear changes.
The Activision Decathlon (1983): ten track-and-field events powered by waggling the joystick.
Outlaw (1978): two cowboys shooting it out, still best with a friend.

His credit on Kaboom! is for the graphics, as Larry Kaplan designed the game, and Ghostbusters is Dan Kitchen’s 2600 conversion of Crane’s computer original. Pick any of them below and play it in your browser.