Larry Kaplan

Larry Kaplan is a born around 1950, American video game designer and programmer. He studied from 1968 to 1974 at the University of California, Berkeley and graduated with a BA in Computer Science from.

First he worked for the company Atari and was instrumental in the success of several Atari 2600 games in charge. Because the name of the game designers were not mentioned in the video games company Atari, Kaplan announced at Atari and was in 1979 one of the five founders of video game company Activision.

When Activision Kaplan was particularly through the Atari 2600 game Kaboom! known. The game was released in 1981 by Activision.

He left Activision in the summer of 1982 and had a short-term contract with Nolan Bushnell, whose project was not successful in transition. In the autumn of the same year he was hired as VP for consumer software division at Atari and should develop a new hardware system, but was discharged in the summer of 83 after collapsing in the market price. Other short appointments followed at Capcom and 3DO.

He was briefly Lead Technical Director for the film Antz, the production company but left before completion. From 2001 he worked again at 3DO until the dissolution of the company in 2003. Since he retired from professional life back (as of 2011 ).