Date | Grid | Clue | Author | Editor |
Wed Sep 4, 2024 | 29D | Asteroids made a big impact on it in the 1980s | Kareem Ayas | Fagliano |
Sun Sep 1, 2024 | 4D | Pac-Man platform | Chandi Deitmer and Matthew Stock | Fagliano |
Tue Jul 23, 2024 | 40A | Pioneer in arcade games | Sarah Sinclair and Amie Walker | Fagliano |
Sun Jul 14, 2024 | 95A | Creator of the 1980 video game Adventure | Jeff Chen | Fagliano |
Tue Jun 18, 2024 | 43A | Arcade game pioneer (4) | Aaron M. Rosenberg | Fagliano |
Sat May 18, 2024 | 25A | Where Steve Jobs first worked after college | Adrian Johnson | Fagliano |
Mon Apr 29, 2024 | 27D | Pioneering video game company (2) | Tom Locke | Fagliano |
Sun Mar 10, 2024 | 3D | Maker of the Flashback console | Enrique Henestroza Anguiano and Matthew Stock | Shortz |
Sat Dec 30, 2023 | 21A | Brand with a joystick | Simeon Seigel | Shortz |
Thu Dec 28, 2023 | 56A | Early employer of Steve Jobs (2) | Kiran Pandey | Shortz |
Tue Dec 19, 2023 | 1A | ___ 2600 (bygone console) | Seth Weitberg | Shortz |
Fri Aug 4, 2023 | 58A | Asteroids system | Brandon Koppy | Shortz |
Sun Mar 5, 2023 | 40A | Company that created Pong (4) | John-Clark Levin | Shortz |
Sun Feb 5, 2023 | 24A | Creator of the games Xybots and Klax | Jeremy Newton | Shortz |
Tue Dec 27, 2022 | 22D | PONG Quest gaming company | Lynn Lempel | Shortz |
Thu Dec 22, 2022 | 59A | Maker of the 2600 game console | David Steinberg | Shortz |
Mon Nov 28, 2022 | 50D | Big name in arcade games (2) | Chloe Revery | Shortz |
Mon Oct 31, 2022 | 54D | Video game company behind Centipede | Emily Carroll | Shortz |
Sun Oct 16, 2022 | 22A | "___: Game Over" (2014 video game documentary) | Paolo Pasco | Shortz |
Sun Sep 25, 2022 | 70D | Maker of the E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial video game | Meghan Morris | Shortz |
Fri Sep 16, 2022 | 59A | Immediate threat to capture, in a game of Go | Juliana Tringali Golden | Shortz |
Thu Aug 11, 2022 | 9A | Onetime rival of Activision | David Tuffs | Shortz |
Fri Jul 29, 2022 | 1A | Breakout company of the 1970s | Robyn Weintraub | Shortz |
Thu Mar 31, 2022 | 68A | Chess : check :: go : ___ | Oliver Roeder | Shortz |
Thu Mar 17, 2022 | 32D | Company whose name comes from a term in the game of Go | Daniel Bodily and Jeff Chen | Shortz |
Tue Mar 15, 2022 | 65A | Crystal Castles console | Michael Lieberman | Shortz |
Fri Mar 11, 2022 | 36A | Company whose corporate logo is known as "the Fuji" | Robyn Weintraub | Shortz |
Tue Dec 21, 2021 | 3D | Developer of the game Breakout | Guilherme Gilioli | Shortz |
Wed Nov 3, 2021 | 53A | Video Pinball maker | Dan Harris | Shortz |
Sun May 23, 2021 | 113A | Pong company | Jennifer Nebergall | Shortz |
Mon Dec 28, 2020 | 18A | Company behind Battlezone and Asteroids | Alan Massengill and Andrea Carla Michaels | Shortz |
Mon Nov 2, 2020 | 52D | Maker of Asteroids | Luke Vaughn | Shortz |
Mon Sep 28, 2020 | 27A | Pong game company | Lynn Lempel | Shortz |
Sun Sep 13, 2020 | 8A | Developer of 1982's E.T., a video game so bad that hundreds of thousands of unsold cartridges were secretly buried in a New Mexico landfill | MaryEllen Uthlaut | Shortz |
Tue Sep 8, 2020 | 48D | Space Invaders console | Kevin Christian and Brad Wilber | Shortz |
Wed Aug 19, 2020 | 34A | Centipede producer (2) | Brandon Koppy | Shortz |
Fri Jul 3, 2020 | 22A | Breakout console | Hal Moore | Shortz |
Mon Jun 1, 2020 | 8D | Company that launched Pong | Erik Agard | Shortz |
Mon Mar 9, 2020 | 11D | Maker of the game Centipede | John Lampkin | Shortz |
Tue Dec 3, 2019 | 25D | Arcade game pioneer (4) | Ed Sessa | Shortz |
Sun Nov 24, 2019 | 35D | Early employer of Steve Jobs (2) | Frank Longo | Shortz |
Tue Nov 5, 2019 | 21A | Pioneering arcade game company | John Guzzetta | Shortz |
Wed Aug 28, 2019 | 26D | Breakout company of 1976? (2) | Daniel Grinberg | Shortz |
Wed May 8, 2019 | 15A | Its version of 37-Across was popular in the 1970s-'80s | Stu Ockman | Shortz |
Wed Apr 24, 2019 | 19A | Big name in classic video games | Evan Mahnken | Shortz |
Fri Mar 15, 2019 | 21D | Success story out of Sunnyvale, Calif. | Jamey Smith | Shortz |
Fri Mar 1, 2019 | 23D | ___ 2600 (early video game device) | Zhouqin Burnikel | Shortz |
Fri Dec 14, 2018 | 35D | Creator of the game Centipede | Andrew J. Ries | Shortz |
Tue Dec 4, 2018 | 11D | Company that created Pong (4) | Peter Gordon | Shortz |
Tue Nov 13, 2018 | 10D | Game company that introduced Breakout | John Ciolfi | Shortz |
Sat Nov 3, 2018 | 53A | Company that once had tremendous "quarterly" profits? | Ryan McCarty | Shortz |
Mon Oct 8, 2018 | 70A | Pioneering name in video games | Jacob Stulberg | Shortz |
Fri Sep 21, 2018 | 54A | Console pioneer (2) | Zhouqin Burnikel | Shortz |
Sun Aug 5, 2018 | 75D | Pong creator (2) | Alison Ohringer and Erik Agard | Shortz |
Sat Jun 30, 2018 | 8D | Retro console giant | Andy Kravis | Shortz |
Tue Jun 26, 2018 | 36A | Console pioneer (2) | Zhouqin Burnikel | Shortz |
Tue Jun 19, 2018 | 44A | Company that created Pong (4) | Peter Gordon | Shortz |
Mon Jun 11, 2018 | 51D | Big name in arcade gaming | Gary Cee | Shortz |
Thu May 31, 2018 | 53D | Game company with an online-only museum | Dominick Talvacchio | Shortz |
Tue May 15, 2018 | 1A | Pioneering game company behind Tank and Tank II | Garry Trudeau and Ross Trudeau | Shortz |
Tue Oct 31, 2017 | 11D | Company that made Pong (3) | Alex Eaton-Salners | Shortz |
Mon Jun 19, 2017 | 47D | Arcade pioneer (2) | Susan Gelfand | Shortz |
Mon May 22, 2017 | 70A | Pong game maker | Gary Kennedy | Shortz |
Sun Mar 26, 2017 | 29A | Missile Command maker (3) | Tracy Gray and Jeff Chen | Shortz |
Fri Mar 17, 2017 | 15A | Centipede creator (3) | Jacob Stulberg | Shortz |
Sun Feb 12, 2017 | 90D | Gaming trailblazer | Lynn Lempel | Shortz |
Thu Jan 12, 2017 | 26D | Old video game maker | Joe Krozel | Shortz |
Tue Dec 13, 2016 | 65A | Company that buried 700,000+ unsold video games in 1983 | David Alfred Bywaters | Shortz |
Fri Nov 25, 2016 | 50A | Early Nintendo competitor | Patrick Berry | Shortz |
Tue Nov 22, 2016 | 62A | Onetime arcade giant | Andrew Zhou | Shortz |
Thu Sep 29, 2016 | 59A | Its version of table tennis had a square ball | Jonathan M. Kaye | Shortz |
Mon Jun 20, 2016 | 29D | ___ 2600 (early game console) | Jason Mueller | Shortz |
Thu Feb 18, 2016 | 26D | Space Invaders maker | Bruce Haight | Shortz |
Thu Jan 28, 2016 | 19D | Big name in games (2) | Elizabeth C. Gorski | Shortz |
Sat Dec 12, 2015 | 50D | Maker of Basketbrawl and Robo-Squash | Byron Walden | Shortz |
Tue Nov 24, 2015 | 4D | Arcade game pioneer (4) | Gary Cee | Shortz |
Mon Oct 5, 2015 | 64A | Company that made Pong (3) | Mike Buckley | Shortz |
Sun Sep 6, 2015 | 55A | Early manufacturer of home computers | Patrick Berry | Shortz |
Wed Sep 2, 2015 | 57A | Game console pioneer | Kevin Christian and Bradley Wilber | Shortz |
Tue Aug 18, 2015 | 11D | Game company with a Japanese name | Bill Thompson | Shortz |
Thu May 7, 2015 | 20D | Centipede creator (3) | Tracy Gray | Shortz |
Mon Mar 9, 2015 | 51D | Big company in arcades | Debbie Ellerin | Shortz |
Sun Nov 16, 2014 | 83A | Early eight-bit computer maker | Andrew J. Ries | Shortz |
Fri Oct 24, 2014 | 18A | Onetime Coleco competitor | Patrick Blindauer | Shortz |
Tue Sep 23, 2014 | 6D | Maker of Asteroids and Missile Command | Gerry Wildenberg | Shortz |
Sun May 18, 2014 | 51A | Missile Command maker (3) | Joe DiPietro | Shortz |
Tue Dec 31, 2013 | 51D | Creator of the game Missile Command (2) | Tracy Gray | Shortz |
Wed Dec 11, 2013 | 4D | Asteroids game maker | Steve Savoy | Shortz |
Wed Nov 6, 2013 | 62A | Gaming pioneer (2) | Jacob McDermott | Shortz |
Thu Sep 26, 2013 | 55D | Creator of Asteroids | Tom Pepper and Victor Barocas | Shortz |
Sat Aug 10, 2013 | 46A | Breakout company of 1976 (2) | Chris A. McGlothlin | Shortz |
Tue Jun 11, 2013 | 53A | Pong purveyor | Pete Muller | Shortz |
Sun Mar 10, 2013 | 108A | Pong maker (7) | Finn Vigeland | Shortz |
Thu Dec 20, 2012 | 41A | Centipede creator (3) | Ian Livengood and J.A.S.A. Crossword Class | Shortz |
Tue Aug 28, 2012 | 35A | Big arcade name (2) | Lou Borenstein | Shortz |
Mon May 21, 2012 | 7D | Big name in arcade games (2) | Ian Livengood | Shortz |
Mon Mar 12, 2012 | 37A | Company that created Pong (4) | Lynn Lempel | Shortz |
Wed Feb 15, 2012 | 27D | Producer of the 2600 game console | Peter A. Collins | Shortz |
Mon Oct 17, 2011 | 6D | Creator of the game Missile Command (2) | Patrick Berry | Shortz |
Wed Aug 3, 2011 | 22D | Tempest game maker | Paul Guttormsson | Shortz |
Fri Jul 8, 2011 | 49A | Breakout company | Brendan Emmett Quigley | Shortz |
Sun May 15, 2011 | 96A | Video game pioneer (4) | Cathy Allis | Shortz |
Mon Apr 18, 2011 | 54D | Classic name in arcades | James Tuttle | Shortz |
Sun Mar 27, 2011 | 98A | Centipede maker (3) | Kevin G. Der | Shortz |
Mon Feb 7, 2011 | 16A | Pioneering video game company (2) | Lynn Lempel | Shortz |
Thu Jan 20, 2011 | 52D | Centipede maker (3) | Michael Shteyman | Shortz |
Tue Dec 28, 2010 | 61A | Company behind the game Battlezone | Robert A. Doll | Shortz |
Thu Nov 11, 2010 | 17A | Game maker starting in 1972 | Andrew Zhou | Shortz |
Wed Oct 6, 2010 | 14A | Pong maker (7) | Ian Livengood | Shortz |
Wed May 5, 2010 | 10D | Game maker since 1972 | Dan Schoenholz | Shortz |
Thu Mar 25, 2010 | 24D | ___ 2600 | Dan Naddor | Shortz |
Mon Mar 8, 2010 | 48A | Big name in video arcades (2) | Stanley Newman | Shortz |
Sat Jun 20, 2009 | 10D | Maker of the Lynx and Jaguar systems | Brad Wilber | Shortz |
Thu Jun 18, 2009 | 14A | Maker of Gauntlet and Area 51 | Patrick Blindauer | Shortz |
Sat Dec 27, 2008 | 44D | Centipede producer (2) | Karen M. Tracey | Shortz |
Fri Sep 19, 2008 | 44D | ___ 2600 (hit product of the 1970s-'80s) | Alex Boisvert | Shortz |
Sun Sep 14, 2008 | 49D | Cyberball maker (2) | Jeremy Newton | Shortz |
Tue Sep 9, 2008 | 29D | ColecoVision rival | Patrick John Duggan | Shortz |
Tue Sep 2, 2008 | 57D | Arcade game pioneer (4) | Stanley Newman | Shortz |
Sun Aug 31, 2008 | 60A | Missile Command maker (3) | Alan Arbesfeld | Shortz |
Tue Jun 24, 2008 | 2D | Pong maker (7) | Barry C. Silk | Shortz |
Thu Jun 5, 2008 | 22A | Cyberball maker (2) | James Sajdak | Shortz |
Sun May 18, 2008 | 4D | Defender company | Brendan Emmett Quigley | Shortz |
Mon Feb 25, 2008 | 29D | Arcade game maker (2) | Randall J. Hartman | Shortz |
Mon Feb 18, 2008 | 30D | Trailblazing video game maker | Lynn Lempel | Shortz |
Mon Jan 28, 2008 | 61A | Dragon Ball Z game company | Michael Blake | Shortz |
Wed Dec 19, 2007 | 42A | Maker of the game Combat | Victor Fleming | Shortz |
Mon Dec 10, 2007 | 13A | ___ 2600 (classic video game console) | Lynn Lempel | Shortz |
Sat Oct 27, 2007 | 2D | Breakout maker (2) | Brendan Emmett Quigley | Shortz |
Sat Sep 22, 2007 | 52A | Jaguar maker | Mark Diehl | Shortz |
Wed Aug 1, 2007 | 20A | Pong maker (7) | David J. Kahn | Shortz |
Tue Jun 12, 2007 | 53D | Centipede maker (3) | Jonathan Gersch | Shortz |
Fri May 18, 2007 | 6D | Breakout maker (2) | David Quarfoot | Shortz |
Fri May 11, 2007 | 16A | Maker of the Jaguar game console | Patrick Berry | Shortz |
Wed May 9, 2007 | 12D | Pong creator (2) | Patrick Merrell | Shortz |
Wed Feb 14, 2007 | 15A | Old Intellivision rival | Paula Gamache | Shortz |
Tue Oct 24, 2006 | 65A | Pong maker (7) | Gail Grabowski | Shortz |
Sat Sep 30, 2006 | 21A | Producer of the megaflop "E.T." | Patrick Berry | Shortz |
Wed Aug 2, 2006 | 12D | Video game pioneer (4) | Harvey Estes | Shortz |
Tue Jul 11, 2006 | 12D | Big arcade name (2) | Karen M. Tracey | Shortz |
Fri Mar 3, 2006 | 57A | Space Invaders maker, once | Tyler Hinman | Shortz |
Wed Dec 21, 2005 | 14A | Classic game company | David J. Kahn | Shortz |
Sun Jun 12, 2005 | 68A | Gaming pioneer (2) | Joe Bower | Shortz |
Thu May 26, 2005 | 32D | Company that once employed Steve Jobs | David J. Kahn | Shortz |
Wed May 18, 2005 | 10D | Donkey Kong company | Brendan Emmett Quigley | Shortz |
Sun Apr 3, 2005 | 127A | Video game name (4) | Nancy Nicholson Joline | Shortz |
Tue Mar 15, 2005 | 15A | Pong maker (7) | Gail Grabowski | Shortz |
Thu Sep 30, 2004 | 46A | Asteroids maker | Lee Glickstein and Nancy Salomon | Shortz |
Sat Aug 28, 2004 | 27D | Combat producer | Dana Motley | Shortz |
Tue Jun 15, 2004 | 59A | Video game pioneer (4) | Nancy Kavanaugh | Shortz |
Thu Jan 22, 2004 | 53A | Company famous for Centipede and Battlezone | Roy Leban | Shortz |
Thu Jan 15, 2004 | 62A | Arcade name (8) | Patrick Merrell | Shorts |
Sun Jul 6, 2003 | 39D | Game name | Robert H. Wolfe | Shortz |
Thu Jul 3, 2003 | 15A | Company that made Asteroids | Cathy Millhauser | Shortz |
Mon Jun 23, 2003 | 14A | Pac-Man maker | Raymond Hamel | Shortz |
Thu May 29, 2003 | 11D | Big name in games (2) | Jim Page | Shortz |
Tue Jan 7, 2003 | 47D | Early video game company | Peter Gordon | Shortz |
Thu Sep 26, 2002 | 56A | Video game name (4) | Manny Nosowsky | Shortz |
Wed Jul 17, 2002 | 39A | Company that made Pong (3) | Peter Gordon | Shortz |
Tue Jun 25, 2002 | 11D | Video game pioneer (4) | Kelly Clark | Shortz |
Sun May 12, 2002 | 70D | Old name in coin-op games | Alan Arbesfeld | Shortz |
Mon May 6, 2002 | 1A | Maker of Space Invaders | Peter Gordon | Shortz |
Mon Apr 22, 2002 | 16A | Arcade game maker (2) | Peter Gordon | Shortz |
Sun Apr 14, 2002 | 60D | Early name in home computers | David J. Kahn | Shortz |
Thu Mar 28, 2002 | 24D | Video game name (4) | Manny Nosowsky | Shortz |
Mon Feb 11, 2002 | 26A | Arcade game name | Peter Gordon | Shortz |
Sun Jan 6, 2002 | 15D | Asteroids producer | Frank A. Longo | Shortz |
Mon Nov 19, 2001 | 67A | Video game name (4) | Peter Gordon | Shortz |
Wed Aug 22, 2001 | 12D | Company built on the profits of Pong | Brendan Emmett Quigley | Shortz |
Mon Aug 13, 2001 | 29D | Company that introduced Donkey Kong | Sherry O. Blackard | Shortz |
Sun May 13, 2001 | 22A | Pole Position company | Nancy Nicholson Joline | Shortz |
Sun Apr 8, 2001 | 110A | Old Intellivision competitor | Randolph Ross | Shortz |
Mon Feb 19, 2001 | 51A | Video game company | Peter Gordon | Shortz |
Wed Jan 17, 2001 | 48D | Arcade name (8) | Alan Arbesfeld | Shortz |
Thu Sep 28, 2000 | 26D | Game company founded in 1972 | Frances Hansen | Shortz |
Sat Sep 2, 2000 | 59A | Maker of the game Asteroids | Rich Norris | Shortz |
Thu Aug 31, 2000 | 11D | Arcade pioneer (2) | Gene Newman | Shortz |
Thu Aug 17, 2000 | 60A | Electronic game pioneer (2) | Greg Staples | Shortz |
Sun May 14, 2000 | 117D | Electronic game pioneer (2) | Bill Zais and Nancy Salomon | Shortz |
Thu Jul 15, 1999 | 54D | Bygone computer name | Zack Butler | Shortz |
Thu Jun 24, 1999 | 9A | Space Invaders game company | Jim Page | Shortz |
Fri Jun 18, 1999 | 58A | Nolan Bushnell's company | Brendan Emmett Quigley | Shortz |
Wed Jun 9, 1999 | 28D | Pole Position game company | Elizabeth C. Gorski | Shortz |
Mon May 31, 1999 | 15A | Big name in video arcades (2) | Joey Crumley | Shortz |
Thu May 27, 1999 | 55A | Asteroids game company | A. J. Santora | Shortz |
Mon Nov 23, 1998 | 14A | Big name at video arcades | Elizabeth C. Gorski | Shortz |
Sun Mar 8, 1998 | 44A | Maker of the game Pong | Richard Silvestri | Shortz |
Sat Feb 28, 1998 | 48D | Arcade name (8) | David J. Kahn | Shortz |
Mon Jan 26, 1998 | 53D | Early name in video games | Eileen Lexau | Shortz |
Sun Jan 4, 1998 | 106D | Computer game pioneer | Mark Danna | Shortz |
Wed Oct 1, 1997 | 29D | Arcade name (8) | Elizabeth C. Gorski | Shortz |
Sun Sep 21, 1997 | 53D | "Computers for people" company | Mike Shenk | Shortz |
Wed Jun 11, 1997 | 3D | Pong maker (7) | Rich Norris | Shortz |
Tue May 20, 1997 | 2D | Video arcade name (3) | Elizabeth C. Gorski | Shortz |
Thu Jan 9, 1997 | 42A | Company that produced the game Pong | C. Millhauser | Shortz |
Wed May 22, 1996 | 34D | Arcade name (8) | R. Hughes | Shortz |
Sun Apr 28, 1996 | 23D | Electronic game name | D. C. Baldwin | Shortz |
Wed Mar 6, 1996 | 36D | Space Invaders game maker | N. S. Ross | Shortz |
Sun Oct 15, 1995 | 25D | Nintendo forerunner | Mel Rosen | Shortz |
Wed Aug 23, 1995 | 31D | Arcade name (8) | Jonathan Schmatzbach | Shortz |
Fri Jul 14, 1995 | 28D | ___ 2600 (old game-playing machine) | Rich Norris | Shortz |
Tue May 2, 1995 | 25D | Computer-game maker | Susan Smith | Shortz |
Tue Apr 4, 1995 | 21A | Video arcade name (3) | David J. Kahn | Shortz |
Mon Nov 21, 1994 | 15A | Video arcade name (3) | Norman S. Wizer | Shortz |
Tue May 31, 1994 | 31D | Old name in game arcades | Roger H. Courtney | Shortz |
Sun Apr 3, 1994 | 1D | Arcade name (8) | Ernie Furtado | Shortz |
Sat Jan 22, 1994 | 61A | Arcade name (8) | Raymond Hamel | Shortz |