Video game designer
Eugene Jarvis
Created Defender and Robotron, two of the hardest and most admired arcade games ever made.
Eugene Peyton Jarvis is an American game designer and video game programmer, known for producing pinball machines for Williams Electronics and video games for Atari. Most notable among his works are the seminal arcade video games Defender and Robotron: 2084 in the early 1980s, and the Cruis'n series of racing games for Nintendo in the 1990s. He co-founded Vid Kidz in the early 1980s and currently leads his own development studio, Raw Thrills. In 2008, Eugene Jarvis was named the first Game Designer in Residence by DePaul University's Game Development program. His family owns the Jarvis Wines company in Napa, California.
- Born
- 1955-01-27, Palo Alto, USAA Thursday
- At birth
- Sun in Aquarius, Moon in Pisces
- Nationality
- United States
- Birth-time source
- No birth time on record: Rodden X
Born
At birth
Nationality
Birth-time sourceBirth Chart
1955-01-27, Palo Alto, USA · time unknown, noon chart
America/Los_Angelesthe zone used then
America/Los_AngelesThe chart
| Body | Sign | Degree | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Aquarius | 7°07′ | Direct |
| Moon | Pisces | 23°31′ | Direct |
| Mercury | Aquarius | 25°32′ | Direct |
| Venus | Sagittarius | 20°17′ | Direct |
| Mars | Aries | 9°02′ | Direct |
| Jupiter | Cancer | 23°19′ | Retrograde |
| Saturn | Scorpio | 20°17′ | Direct |
| Uranus | Cancer | 25°10′ | Retrograde |
| Neptune | Libra | 28°14′ | Direct |
| Pluto | Leo | 26°00′ | Retrograde |
Eugene Jarvis is alive, so there is one chart here rather than two. The death chart is cast for a documented moment of death and there is nothing to cast one for, which is the point: this site does not estimate either end.
Their Astrocartography
Where each planet sat on one of the four angles at the moment Eugene Jarvis was born. Tap a line to read what the tradition associates with it.
Cast for noon, as the birth time is unknown, so the longitudes are approximate.