Dan Pinal: Alternate Reality - The Dungeon, Atari
Graphics and Arcade Game Design
Dan Pinal contributed to the book Atari Graphics and Arcade
Game Design, with Jeff Stanton, a book published by Arrays in 1984.
He was one of the programmers of Alternate Reality - The Dungeon,
which was published by Datasoft in 1987. He also created the game
Stargate Courier, published by COSMI; and worked on the Atari port
of Goonies for Datasoft.
This interview took place on September 1, 2017.
"They said, 'How long?' and we said '18 months.' And they said
‘We can’t wait that long to put something out.'"