Larry Kaplan was one of the first programmers to write games for the Atari VCS. He joined Atari in August 1976, and his first game, Air-Sea Battle, was among the cartridges for the console’s 1977 launch.
His other Atari games on this site are Street Racer, another launch title with six paddle games in one, the memory and puzzle cartridge Brain Games from 1978, and Bowling from 1979, his last VCS game at Atari, in which you can bend the ball’s path after it leaves the bowler’s hand.
Kaplan then left to help found Activision. There he wrote Bridge, a quiet card game that lets one player bid and play contract bridge, and in 1981 Kaboom!, a paddle game about catching the Mad Bomber’s bombs, with graphics by David Crane. Activision later said it had sold more than a million copies.
All six games are below, and each one plays in your browser.
Brain Games is a 1978 Atari cartridge of memory and puzzle games, programmed by Larry Kaplan. It packs 19 game variations into six activities: repeating sequences of tones or numbers, remembering pictures, spotting the odd one out, adding…
Play ▸Street Racer is one of the nine cartridges that were on sale when the Atari 2600 launched in September 1977. Larry Kaplan programmed it, and Sears sold its own version as Speedway II. Despite the name, it is…
Play ▸Air-Sea Battle is a 1977 shooting game from Atari, designed by Larry Kaplan as his first game for the company. It was one of the first cartridges for the Atari Video Computer System, and Sears sold it as…
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