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Russ Wetmore was born on 17 October, 1956 in Sagamihara, Japan, is an American computer programmer and video game designer. Discover Russ Wetmore's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 67 years old?
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67 years old |
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Libra |
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17 October, 1956 |
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17 October |
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Sagamihara, Japan |
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United States
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Russ Wetmore Height, Weight & Measurements
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Russ Wetmore Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Russ Wetmore worth at the age of 67 years old? Russ Wetmore’s income source is mostly from being a successful game designer. He is from United States. We have estimated Russ Wetmore's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
Interested in classical music, Wetmore majored in music composition at Morehead State University, from 1973 to 1975, until running out of money.
Russ Wetmore is an American programmer and video game designer best known for writing commercial games and applications for the Atari 8-bit family in the early to mid 1980s.
His Frogger-inspired Preppie! was published by Adventure International as well as its sequel.
Preppie! is a variant of Konami's Frogger themed with the preppy fad of the early 1980s.
The game received positive reviews, especially for the visuals and music.
"By Russ Wetmore" is prominently displayed on the box cover, resulting in Wetmore becoming a recognized name in Atari game programming.
Wetmore met Adventure International founder Scott Adams in 1981 and was hired as a liaison for external game authors.
When he became interested in developing his own games, Adams loaned him an Atari 800.
Wetmore's first commercial game was Preppie! for the Atari 8-bit computers, released in 1982.
He ported the underwater, horizontally scrolling shooter Sea Dragon to Atari 8-bit computers (1982).
The TRS-80 original, by Wayne Westmoreland and Terry Gilman, draws the undersea terrain as monochrome outlines, while the Atari version adds colorful, filled graphics.
He stopped writing games after the video game crash of 1983 and developed the integrated HomePak productivity suite for Batteries Included.
Wetmore designed and programmed, Preppie! II, released in 1983.
It keeps the preppy theming and protagonist of the original, but involves coloring three mazes by moving through them.
All three of Wetmore's games were developed under the name Star Systems Software and published by Adventure International.
In a 1983 interview with Electronic Games, he mentioned a third Preppie! game called Preppies in Space and another project:
""My next game will be really esoteric," Wetmore confides. "It will involve a three-dimensional room filled with bouncing balls which the player must drop through holes in the floor.""
Neither game was completed.
As a result of the video game crash of 1983, Wetmore stopped writing games and created the integrated application suite HomePak (1984) for the Atari 8-bit computers.
It contains a word processor (HomeText), database (HomeFind), and terminal communications program (HomeTerm).
HomePak was published by Batteries Included.
It is one of the few commercial products written in the Action! programming language from Optimized Systems Software.
With Sparky Starks, Wetmore co-authored HomeCard, an Atari 8-bit application advertised as an "electronic filing box" and "intelligent Rolodex."
It was published by Antic Software in 1985.
Wetmore wrote a short-lived column for Atari computer magazine ANALOG Computing called "On-Line" which first appeared in the May 1985 issue.
He has since worked as a software architect and director of software development for a variety of companies, including Apple Computer.
Wetmore wrote in 2005 that Preppies in Space was only a concept.
Following his appearance on the ANTIC Podcast in January 2016, Wetmore released the Atari 8-bit source code for Preppie, Preppie II, and Sea Dragon to the Internet Archive.
Also made available was a demo for an unfinished Atari 8-bit game, Lulu.
