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2 unusual facts about River Raid


Procedural generation

Other notable early examples include the 1985 game Rescue on Fractalus that used fractals to procedurally create in real time the craggy mountains of an alien planet and River Raid, the 1982 Activision game that used a pseudorandom number sequence generated by a linear feedback shift register in order to generate a scrolling maze of obstacles.

River Raid

This sequel, programmed by David Lubar, has similar gameplay, but with a different landscape and increased difficulty.


Carla Meninsky

Along with Carol Shaw (creator of 3-D Tic-Tac-Toe and River Raid), Meninsky was one of two female engineers at Atari to develop video game cartridges released in the early 1980s.


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