Nathan Pooley
aka:
Acorn Pooley
Moby ID: 39536
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Acorn (Nathan) got into graphics early with Apple ][ programming. After graduating from RPI in 1990 he worked at NCR, IBM, SGI, Atari, EA, NVIDIA, Willow Garage, SRI, and Google/Alphabet/EverydayRobots.
At IBM he worked on the GXT1000 graphics adaptor, for use with RS6000 cad workstations.
At SGI he worked on the development of the N64 console (referred to as Ultra64 at the time). He was one of the 3 people who wrote all the graphics microcode for the RSP (along with Steve Anderson and Kevin Luster).
At Atari Games he worked on Gauntlet Legends (coin-op), Gauntlet Dark Legacy (coin-op), and Gauntlet Dark Legacy (PS2). His code also appears in War: Final Assault (coin-op), and San Francisco Rush (coin-op).
At EA he worked on "Knockout Kings" (PS2) and "James Bond: Everything or Nothing" (PS2, Gamecube, XBox).
At NVIDIA he worked on OpenGL ES 2.0 for mobile devices (e.g. cellphones).
At Willow Garage, SRI, and Google he programmed robots.
Credited on 14 games
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| Turok (2015, Windows) | Silicon Graphics |
| 007: Everything or Nothing (2004, GameCube) | Engineers |
| San Francisco Rush 2049: Special Edition (2003, Arcade) | Support Software |
| 007: Nightfire (2002, GameCube) | Additional Programming |
| Knockout Kings 2003 (2002, GameCube) | Additional Engineering |
| Knockout Kings 2002 (2002, PlayStation 2) | Engineers |
| Gauntlet: Dark Legacy (2001, PlayStation 2) | Programming |
| San Francisco Rush 2049 (1999, Arcade) | Support Software |
| War: Final Assault (1999, Arcade) | Additional Programming |
| Road Burners (1999, Arcade) | Software Support |
| Gauntlet: Legends (1998, Arcade) | Programmers |
| Tetrisphere (1997, Nintendo 64) | Thanks To |
| Turok: Dinosaur Hunter (1997, Nintendo 64) | Silicon Graphics |
| Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire (1996, Nintendo 64) | Silicon Graphics Inc. |
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Frequent Collaborators
People- 6 games with Pete Mokris
- 6 games with Steven Bennetts
- 6 games with Mark Stephen Pierce
- 6 games with Steve Norris
- 6 games with Mike Albaugh
- 6 games with Steve Correll
- 6 games with Andrew Dyer
- 6 games with Ray Bersabe
- 6 games with Dave Shepperd
- 6 games with Richard Peltier
Companies
- 6 games with Midway Games West, Inc.
- 4 games with Electronic Arts, Inc.
- 3 games with Visceral Games (Redwood Shores)
- 3 games with Electronic Arts GmbH
- 3 games with Electronic Arts Publishing SARL
- 2 games with Soundelux Design Music Group
- 2 games with Mondo Media, Inc.
- 2 games with EA Games
- 2 games with United Artists Corporation
- 2 games with Danjaq, LLC
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