Eugene Peyton Jarvis is an American game designer and programmer, known for producing pinball machines for Atari and video games for Williams Electronics. Most notable amongst his works are the seminal arcade video games Defender and Robotron: 2084 in the early 1980s, and the Cruis'n series of driving games for Midway Games in the 1990s. He co-founded Vid Kidz in the early 1980s and currently leads his own development studio, Raw Thrills Inc. In 2008 Eugene Jarvis was named the first Game Designer in Residence by DePaul University's Game Development program. His family owns the Jarvis Wines company in Napa, CA. Wikipedia
From an interview with Wayne Robert Williams of Joystik magazine, September 1982 http://www.gamearchive.com/General/Articles/ClassicNews/1982/JoystikJarvis1.htm
"Newcity Chicago," April 2008, on the arcade game "Tetris"
Joystik, September 1982
"Newcity Chicago," April 2008 http://www.newcitychicago.com/chicago/7612.html
