![]() ![]() Hally-a rising star at Atari and a fan of Star Wars himself-was determined to get the gig. In 1982, Atari and Lucasfilm reached an agreement to produce arcade games based on the entire Star Wars trilogy. “I loved games and liked to design stuff, so they must have seen something in me,” he remembers. Hally cut his teeth on pinball games like Middle Earth, Time 2000, and Superman, but after a couple of years the California pinball division was shuttered, and Hally was transferred to the coin-op arcade games group. “One of those guys was recruiting mechanical engineers for their pinball division, so I applied.” After attaining his degree, Hally accepted a job offer and joined the company. “In my senior year, Atari sent a representative to my college to recruit people,” Hally says. As Hally neared graduation and needed to find a job, a seemingly fated opportunity would arise. Atari, the gaming giant behind arcade megahits like Space Invaders, was located in nearby Sunnyvale. Of Candice Millard’s Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and. ![]() Of that first bio, I remember next to nothing, not even the name. What may be his first decent, academically thoughtful bio was just published this month. Over many years I have read biographies of almost every President, in order, up to Ford. In 1977, the year of Star Wars: A New Hope’s release, Hally was a mechanical engineering student at Santa Clara University in California. 4/5: This is not my first biography of James Garfield. ![]()
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