Dave Akers is a video game programmer and designer who worked on the M Network ports of ''

BurgerTime originally released as in Japan, is a 1982 arcade game developed by Data East initially for its DECO Cassette System. The player is chef Peter Pepper, who must walk over hamburger ingredients located across a maze of platforms while avoiding c ...

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Bump 'n' Jump ''Bump 'n' Jump'' is an overhead-view vehicular combat game developed by Data East and originally released in Japan as . The arcade version was available as both a dedicated board and as part of Data East's DECO Cassette System. It was distribu ...

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Star Strike ''Star Strike'' is a single-player video game, released by Mattel for its Intellivision video game system in 1981. The Intellivision's best-selling game in 1982, with over 800,000 copies sold, ''Star Strike'' was inspired by the attack on the De ...

'' for the Atari 2600. He co-designed the 1989 arcade game '' Klax'' with Mark Stephen Pierceklax, video game at arcade-history
/ref> and worked on '' Escape from the Planet of the Robot Monsters''. Akers prototyped ''Klax'' in AmigaBASIC in just a few weeks, then ported it line-by-line to C. As of the spring of 2006, Akers was working as an English teacher in Numazu,

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

. In 2013, Dave Akers developed ''Paddle Party'',Paddle Party
/ref> a game for Intellivision released by Elektronite.

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