Editing Warren Robinett (section)

==Atari, Inc.==
His first effort at Atari was ''[[Slot Racers]]'' for the Atari 2600.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/03/atari-devs-dissect-yars-revenge-adventure-ataris-woes/ | title=Atari devs dissect Yars' Revenge, Adventure, Atari's woes | date=14 March 2015 }}</ref> While he was working on it, he had discovered and played Crowther and Woods' ''[[Colossal Cave Adventure]]'' at the [[Stanford University centers and institutes#Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory|Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory]], and decided that a graphical video game version "would be really cool".<ref name="halcyon" />  However, with 128 bytes of [[Random-access memory|RAM]] and 4096 bytes of [[Read-only memory|ROM]], Atari's ''Adventure'' was a much simpler program, and with only a [[joystick]] for input, the set of "commands" was necessarily brief.<ref name="halcyon" />  ''Adventure'' was a hit upon its 1979 release, and it eventually sold a million copies.<ref name="thejadedgamer" />

[[File:Adventure Easteregg.PNG|thumb|left|The ''Adventure'' Easter egg: "Created by Warren Robinett"]]

Atari designers at the time were not given credit for their games, because Atari feared having to bargain with well-known designers.<ref name="thejadedgamer" /> In response to this, Robinett placed a hidden object in the game that would allow the player to reach a hidden screen which displayed the words "Created by Warren Robinett," hence creating one of the earliest known [[Easter egg (media)|Easter eggs]] in a video game, and the first to which the name "Easter egg" was applied.<ref name="thejadedgamer" /><ref name="halcyon" />

Robinett then wrote the ''[[BASIC Programming]]'' cartridge, finishing both ''BASIC Programming'' and ''Adventure'' in June 1979, and quit Atari.<ref name="halcyon" />