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Jace Hall
06-15-2017 at 12:48 AM
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Extremely saddened to hear that friend and video game industry icon Keith Robinson exited this current life challenge stage and moved to the next level. :(


He will be dearly missed.


Keith was a pioneer and inspirational to all of us in the video game culture. His contributions positively affected millions.


Over the years I was fortunate to be able to spend time with him. Even more fortunate is that I was able to permanently capture some of those moments on video.


Jace Hall Show producer Todd Roy pulled some of that video so that we could share some of our great times with Keith. It had been a while since I had seen this stuff. Fond memories. Nolan Bushnell also appears.


Rest in Peace dear Keith, the next video game I play is for YOU.
-jace

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Rest in Peace Keith. Your contributions to gaming will always be remembered.
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As long time is I can remember. I still always believe in video games alot. But I kinda miss Mr. Robinson, at least I already got a chance to meet him, from at TG trading card award ceremonies Museum Of Pinball, back in October 3rd 2015. We should be thankful for the best of loving memories.

And I won't him down, I will keep it up, as I'm still continuing for my video game journey and my next video game adventure.

Rest In Peace, Mr. Robinson!
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Bless You, Please, Mr. Robinson, we will love you more than you will know...

Just fell in love with the INT. Unquestionably shed a tear in a moment of reflection for someone I've never even met.
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One of the early programmers, Keith Robinson, re-acquired the rights to Intellivision in recent years and the Blue Sky Rangers' games are now available on a variety of computers and video game platforms, as well as mobile phones.

The Blue Sky Rangers is a group of Intellivision game programmers who previously worked for Mattel in the early 1980s.
When the Intellivision first came out in 1978, its games were all developed by an outside firm, APh Technological Consulting. Realizing that potential profits are much greater with first party software, Mattel formed its own in-house software development group. The original five members of that Intellivision team were manager Gabriel Baum, Don Daglow, Rick Levine, Mike Minkoff and John Sohl. Levine and Minkoff (a long-time Mattel Toys veteran) both came over from the hand-held Mattel games engineering team. To keep these and later programmers (the Mattel team peaked at 110 people in 1983) from being hired away by rival Atari, their identity and work location was kept a closely guarded secret.
In 1982, TV Guide published an article about Intellivision's secret programming team. The writer of the article wanted to come up with some group name other than "The Application Software Programmers," so he came up with the name "The Blue Sky Rangers." This was based on the programming group's "Blue Sky Meetings," which were a series of brainstorming sessions for new game ideas.[1]
This name stuck and the programmers were (and still are) collectively referred to as the Blue Sky Rangers. One of the early programmers, Keith Robinson, re-acquired the rights to Intellivision in recent years and the Blue Sky Rangers' games are now available on a variety of computers and video game platforms, as well as mobile phones.



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Love that show! He was an awesome man, and will be missed. A pioneer in his time.
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One of the first things I did when I discovered the internet was look up Intellivision stuff and discovered the Blue Sky Rangers. That was the mid-nineties. Only 15 years had passed since I had my very first Intellivision and it seemed like I was reading ancient history.

That was 22 years ago but seems like only a few.

I told that to Keith when I met him, and we had a good chuckle about how the perception of time changes as you get older.

I was honored to meet him, and very sad to hear of his passing.

Thank you Keith, R.I.P.
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Will Miss you Keith knew you well
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I am just fireing up my Intellivision emulator, in pure tribute. Keith was a true pioneer, and we should all raise a statue in his name, and start worshipping. Hail to King Keith! Long Live the King! :)
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