Does anyone know where Duane Later is these days? Duane wrote the three type-in games from the VIC-20 manual (Tank vs UFO, Killer Comet and Rocket Command). Beyond a few entries on some websites, I cannot find anything else.
Anyone know where he ended up after Commodore?
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Hmm. I found an old Geocities page of an interview with Neil Harris from 1997 where someone asks the same thing and Neil says “I haven’t heard anything about Duane in years. He was really only part of the team at the beginning, for a few months.” If he doesn’t know…he might be a tough guy to find. Link: https://www.geocities.ws/rmelick/8.htm
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I have often wondered what he did next, and if he is still around? He also wrote another commercial game in 1981 in BASIC published by Commodore called Blue Meanies from Outer Space.
What’s interesting to me is I really remember the name “Blue Meanies from Outer Space” but I do not think I ever saw it. Not sure how I’d even know about it unless it was in a magazine I had or in a cartridge or something at the department store.