Name Dave Akers Height 1.78 m | Spouse Erika Akers (m. 1997) | |
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Role American football placekicker Current team Detroit Lions (#2 / Placekicker) Education Tates Creek High School, University of Louisville Children Luke Akers, Sawyer Akers, Halley Akers Similar People Matt Prater, Sebastian Janikowski, Havard Rugland, Darryl Tapp, Billy Cundiff | ||
Dave Akers is a video game programmer and designer who worked on the M-Network ports of BurgerTime, Bump 'n' Jump, and Star Strike for the Atari 2600. He co-designed the 1989 arcade game Klax with Mark Stephen Pierce and worked on Escape from the Planet of the Robot Monsters.
Akers prototyped Klax in AmigaBASIC in just a few weeks, then ported it line-by-line to C.
As of the spring of 2006, Akers worked as an English teacher in Numazu, Japan.
In 2013, Dave Akers developed Paddle Party, a homebrew game for Intellivision released by Elektronite.
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