Talk:RealSports Baseball

Joseph Tung
Joseph Tung is credited on multiple websites (e.g., Moby Games) as the original designer of this game. However there is no reliable source for this. I see Joseph Tung is the author of a self-published book called "Cloning Jesus" that contains the claim that he designed RealSports Baseball. I think it quite likely that Tung himself is the source of the claim and that this claim has made it onto multiple websites through a form of citogenesis. Tung also claims to have developed Galaxian, which seems unlikely - this was a Namco game.

There is no record that I could find of a Joseph Tung having worked for Atari at the relevant time. There is a Joseph Tung who worked on Halo:Reach, but he appears too young to have been developing games in the early 1980s. There is also a Joseph Tung who worked at IBM and in 1981 went on to found Rotating Memory Systems, but this is obviously not the person who developed RealSports Baseball in 1982. Retro Gamer UK credits Keithen Hayenga as the progenitor of this game but the quote from him is unclear as to whether he actually designed the 2600 version or just finished the 5200 version.

TL;DR - there is no reliable source saying Tung designed this game and as such I'm striking this claim. Based on this interview it seems likely that Andreason probably designed the 2600 version but without a source explicitly saying so we'll have to leave this point open. FOARP (talk) 17:56, 3 March 2021 (UTC)