Lyle Rains

Template:Short description Template:BLP sources Lyle Rains was a senior executive at the arcade game company Atari and conceptualized the original idea for Asteroids, which was then developed and implemented by Ed Logg.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Rains reportedly called Logg into his office and said "Well, why don’t we have a game where you shoot the rocks and blow them up?"<ref name="ClassicGamingAsteroids">Template:Cite web</ref>

Rains also served as Executive Producer for a large number of Atari coin-op games. An avid gamer, he wrote a popular online FAQ for the Atari coin-op game KLAX.

Rains also had creative input in Cyberball (1988), where he suggested a football game where opponents could input plays while being blocked from seeing each other's screens.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

He joined old compatriot video game designers in a new company called Innovative Leisure headed by Seamus Blackley in 2012 to design games for phones.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>

Game credits

Tank (1974)
Jet Fighter (1975)
Steeplechase (1975)
Sprint 2 (1976) - also credited with designing the well-known 'Atari arcade font'.
Sprint 4 (1977)
Atari Football (1978)
Sky Raider (1978) - game designer
Asteroids (1979)
Hard Drivin' (1988)
Race Drivin' (1990)
Space Lords (1992)