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3 unusual facts about Peter Langston


Ballblazer

Ballblazers theme music, called "Song of the Grid" and heard between matches, was algorithmically generated, a technique designed by Lucasfilm Games team leader Peter Langston and called "riffology".

Empire Classic

Peter Langston's 1971 version was developed while he was on staff at Harvard University using Bell Labs UNIX and the C programming language on a PDP 11/45.

Rescue on Fractalus!

The game was one of the first two products from the fledgling Lucasfilm Computer Division Games Group led by Peter Langston.



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