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Contains 12 Results:

Polo - notes, sketches, reference, and correspondence; 1963-1979 [bulk 1978-1979]

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Content Note From the Sub-Series: This subseries houses various notes, sketches, correspondence, and other related materials pertaining to the development of several programs by Shaw from 1978 to 1980. (Some reference materials are photocopies of articles or book pages and date earlier than the actual creation of the associated software.) Within Folder 2, there are notes and printouts from well-known Atari game designer Ed Logg. Printouts originally on thermographic paper have been scanned in order to retain the...
Dates: 1960-1980

“Qubic” [3-D Tic-Tac Toe] - notes, sketches, reference, and correspondence; 1972-1979 and n.d. [bulk 1978-1979]

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Content Note From the Sub-Series: This subseries houses various notes, sketches, correspondence, and other related materials pertaining to the development of several programs by Shaw from 1978 to 1980. (Some reference materials are photocopies of articles or book pages and date earlier than the actual creation of the associated software.) Within Folder 2, there are notes and printouts from well-known Atari game designer Ed Logg. Printouts originally on thermographic paper have been scanned in order to retain the...
Dates: 1960-1980

Calculator - notes, reference, and sketches; 1977-1979 [bulk 1979]

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Content Note From the Sub-Series: This subseries houses various notes, sketches, correspondence, and other related materials pertaining to the development of several programs by Shaw from 1978 to 1980. (Some reference materials are photocopies of articles or book pages and date earlier than the actual creation of the associated software.) Within Folder 2, there are notes and printouts from well-known Atari game designer Ed Logg. Printouts originally on thermographic paper have been scanned in order to retain the...
Dates: 1960-1980

“VCS Checkers” [Video Checkers] - notes, reference, sketches, and correspondence; 1960-1980 [bulk 1979-1980]

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Scope and Content Note From the Sub-Series: This subseries houses various notes, sketches, correspondence, and other related materials pertaining to the development of several programs by Shaw from 1978 to 1980. (Some reference materials are photocopies of articles or book pages and date earlier than the actual creation of the associated software.) Within Folder 2, there are notes and printouts from well-known Atari game designer Ed Logg. Printouts originally on thermographic paper have been scanned in order to retain the...
Dates: 1960-1980

Atari Personal Computer Systems Software Catalog, 1980

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Scope and Content Note From the Sub-Series:

This subseries contains a 1980 Atari Personal Computer Systems Software Catalog, which features descriptions for several programs developed by Shaw (including Calculatorand 3-D Tic-Tac-Toe, which Shaw marked in pencil on the catalog pages).

Dates: 1960-1980

Activision business cards, Carol Shaw, Designer, n.d. [c. 1982-1984]

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Scope and Content Note From the Sub-Series:

Within this subseries are advertisements by Activision for Carol Shaw’s River Raid in both English and German, as well as catalogs, commercials, a poster, and business cards. (These advertisements and catalog pages are notable for highlighting Carol Shaw as the designer of River Raid, since companies did not typically acknowledge the creator in the game’s title.)

Dates: 1982-2008

Activision “Carol Shaw’s River Raid” sell sheet, 1983

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Scope and Content Note From the Sub-Series:

Within this subseries are advertisements by Activision for Carol Shaw’s River Raid in both English and German, as well as catalogs, commercials, a poster, and business cards. (These advertisements and catalog pages are notable for highlighting Carol Shaw as the designer of River Raid, since companies did not typically acknowledge the creator in the game’s title.)

Dates: 1982-2008

Activision River Raid Jagdflieger sell sheet, 1983 [in German]

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Scope and Content Note From the Sub-Series:

Within this subseries are advertisements by Activision for Carol Shaw’s River Raid in both English and German, as well as catalogs, commercials, a poster, and business cards. (These advertisements and catalog pages are notable for highlighting Carol Shaw as the designer of River Raid, since companies did not typically acknowledge the creator in the game’s title.)

Dates: 1982-2008

Activision Video Game Cartridge catalogs, 1983-1984, and River Raiders high-scorer patch, n.d. [c. 1983]

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Scope and Content Note From the Sub-Series:

Within this subseries are advertisements by Activision for Carol Shaw’s River Raid in both English and German, as well as catalogs, commercials, a poster, and business cards. (These advertisements and catalog pages are notable for highlighting Carol Shaw as the designer of River Raid, since companies did not typically acknowledge the creator in the game’s title.)

Dates: 1982-2008

Carol Shaw with Atari 800, photographic slide, April 1981

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Scope and Content Note From the Series:

This series holds a photographic slide of Carol Shaw, a letter from an Activision executive upon the release of the Atari 2600 Action Pack (which featured River Raid) in 1995, and a list of the materials donated by Shaw to The Strong in 2017.

Dates: 1981-2017