Arcade Machine
Name: Arcade Machine
Programmer(s): Doug Carlston & Chris Jochumson
Publisher: Brøderbund Software
Year: 1982
Description: Make your own arcade games with this "construction set". Pretty much every game produced by this program fit the shoot em up category. A great tool at the time for budding arcade programmings with little or no programming skills this was "visual programming" before Microsoft. Problem was that it took a hell of a lot of work to do anything worth playing. Most of the games I ever produced with this were 100% forgettable. There were some decent ones that I've found on Asimov but for the most part it's the same game with a different background.