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Battlezone 2 change view12/22/2023 This interview has been edited for length and readability. ROMchip editors Raiford Guins and Henry Lowood sat down with Querio at his home in Walnut Creek, California, in July 2019 to learn more about his time at Atari and direct involvement in Army Battlezone. Querio designed cabinets for: Atari Basketball (1979) Video Pinball (1979) Battlezone (1980), including the military conversion Army Battlezone (1981) the cocktail table for Warlords (1981) and Tempest (1981), the last cabinet he worked on before moving into Atari’s research and design division until his departure from the company in 1984. and sales from the release of the Atari VCS. Upon graduation in 1977, he went full-time during a period when the company’s industrial design division was experiencing significant growth due to the acquisition of Atari Inc. During his senior year, he obtained a paid internship with Atari’s coin-op division in 1976. Querio trained in industrial design at San Jose State University in the mid-1970s. 1 Was it meant for training purposes? Envisioned as a recruitment device at the height of arcade game play? Or was it simply seen as army-themed leisurely play for a breakroom or at a PX? One thing, however, is known: the person who did the industrial design work on the cabinet for Army Battlezone was Mike Querio, an industrial designer at Atari. Beyond the existence of prototypes bearing titles like Bradley Trainer and Army Battlezone, little documentation exists at public institutions (e.g., Stanford University, The Strong) on Atari’s development of its combat simulator or the army’s plans for its installation on US bases. In the wake of the popularity of Atari Inc.’s coin-op video game machine, Battlezone (1980), a first-person futuristic tank combat simulation, the US Army approached the company to develop a version for its Bradley fighting vehicle, an armored infantry combat vehicle that went into service starting in 1981.
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