Doug Neubauer
Doug Neubauer is an American integrated circuit designer, video game designer, and programmer best known for the logic design on Atari's POKEY chip and designing and programming the 1979 video game Star Raiders which became the killer app for the Atari 8-bit family.
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| Occupation(s) | Integrated circuit designer Video game designer Programmer |
| Notable work | POKEY sound chip Star Raiders (Atari 8-bit) Solaris (Atari 2600) |
The POKEY chip is one of three custom coprocessors created for the Atari 8-bit computers. POKEY handles potentiometer (paddle) controllers and the keyboard—the name is a combination of "POtentiometer" and "KEYboard"—as well as generating four channels of 8-bit audio. It also serves as the audio chip in many arcade games, such as Missile Command and Centipede.
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