Speakers

Warren Davis is best known as the designer and programmer of the arcade classic, Q*bert. He also co-designed and programmed the laserdisc game, Us Vs. Them. For Williams, he contributed to Joust 2 and helped develop the system that became NARC. He was part of the team that created Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Revolution X featuring Aerosmith. He also created the digitizing system that Williams/Bally/Midway used for many of their hit games of the 1990s including Mortal Kombat and NBA Jam, as well as the aforementioned T2 and Rev X. During a hiatus from Williams, he created the surreal and unusual Exterminator. In the mid-1990s, Warren left the arcade industry and worked on a variety of home games for Disney and other companies. He was, for a short time, a Disney Imagineer and has also worked for Industrial Light and Magic. In 2018, he was inducted into the International Video Game Hall of Fame. In 2022, his memoir about his time in the coin-op industry – Creating Q*bert and Other Classic Arcade Games – was published by Santa Monica Press and is now available worldwide. He appears in the film, Insert Coin, about the glory days of Willams/Bally/Midway, and is included in the documentary portion or the recently released Mortal Kombat Legacy Kollection.

Presenting:

• The Evolution of Digitized Graphics at Williams/Bally/Midway (from 'NARC' to 'Mortal Kombat' and Beyond)