Warren Robinett, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Warren Robinett

video game designer

Date of Birth: 25-Dec-1951

Place of Birth: Springfield, Missouri, United States

Profession: engineer, computer scientist, programmer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Joseph Warren Robinett Jr.
(born December 25, 1951) is a designer of interactive computer graphics software, notable as the developer of the Atari 2600's Adventure — the first graphical adventure video game — and as a founder of The Learning Company, where he designed Rocky's Boots and Robot Odyssey.
More recently he has worked on virtual reality projects. Robinett graduated in 1974 with a B.A.
from Rice University, with a major in "Computer Applications to Language and Art".
After graduating from Rice University, he was a Fortran programmer for Western Geophysical in Houston, Texas.
He received an M.S.
from University of California, Berkeley in 1976, and went to work at Atari, Inc.
in November 1977.