Dan Oliver

Dan Oliver
Known for	Final Legacy, Laser Gates, Rescue Terra I
Birth	1955
Death

Dan Oliver (born in 1955) is a video game developer.

Career

Dan Oliver joined the newly-formed Apollo, Inc. in 1981 at age 26. At Apollo, he designed Space Cavern, which was released in 1981, and Final Approach which was released in 1982.

In 1982, VentureVision was formed by Robert Hesler, with Dan Oliver and Danny Abshire as co-owners. Rescue Terra I was developed by Oliver, and was published in 1982.

The second VentureVision game was also developed by Dan Oliver. However, the company was nearing closure in 1983, so Oliver traded his ownership in the company for the rights to the game, which was named Innerspace at the time.

Imagic purchased the game, Dan Oliver finished its development, and the game was published in October 1983 as Laser Gates.

In 1983, prior to the North American video game crash, Dan Oliver was hired by Atari. He was tasked with creating Telepathy, a demonstration game for the ultimately unreleased Mindlink facial movement controller.

After Atari was split into Atari Games for the arcade market and Atari Corporation for the home market in 1984, Dan Oliver remained at the latter.

Oliver co-designed Final Legacy with Chris Horseman for Atari Corporation, which was released in 1987.

He worked as a programmer on the 1994 DOS version of Night Trap for Digital Pictures.