Mark Allen

Programmer, Video Game Developer

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Who is Mark Allen?

Mark Allen is a software engineer, game programmer and game designer. As a student at the University of California, San Diego, Allen used UCSD Pascal to develop a 6502 interpreter for the Pascal language in 1978, along with Richard Gleaves. This work later became the basis for Apple Pascal in 1979.

Later, Allen developed a number of well-received computer games for the Apple II, including Stellar Invaders, Sabotage and Pest Patrol. Sabotage, In particular, became a classic Apple II game and sparked numerous clones.

One such clone of Sabotage was shipped as a standard piece of software on early iPods that had displays. It was called Parachute.

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on July 23, 2013

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