I was an employee of Atari in 1987 and Activision in 1990-1991, when it used the parent name Mediagenic. (I also worked for Atari's founder in 1988-1989 and knew people who had worked for Imagic--with Activision the other big first indie developer--and Accolade.)
It's funny that you mention some of those games. I was technically a co-founder of Iguana Entertainment, which started in Sunnyvale and Santa Clara before moving to Austin and became part of Acclaim Entertainment in 1995, which was probably around when I first met Greg Fischbach. Iguana ported NBA Jam to the Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo, and developed Turok. I created the company's development system hardware and was the de facto operations manager until we grew large enough for me to delegate those functions. For Turok, I had to hire an electrician to add 20-amp 110VAC circuits for the 2 SGI Onyx workstations that Nintendo lent us as development systems.
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