Suki Lee is an American video game designer and computer programmer. She was one of the few female developers at

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in the early 1980s where she wrote the educational game ''

Math Gran Prix ''Math Gran Prix'' (released as ''Maths Grand Prix'' in Europe) is an educational video game written for the Atari 2600 by Suki Lee and published by Atari, Inc. in 1982. Gameplay The player must advance a car through a Grand Prix race by answe ...

'' for the Atari 2600 (1982) and '' Obelix'' (1983) for the same system. Afterward she worked as a project manager at

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Education

Lee received her bachelor's degree at

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with a major in general engineering.

Career

Lee was hired by Atari after college in August 1981. She was there until 1984, when she started working for Cadtrak Corporation developing software user interfaces for petroleum plant layout. She also worked for Apple from 1986 to 1997, then later went to work at Palm, eCircle and WebTV until 1997. In late 2002, she resigned and continued working at Apple.

Games

* ''

'' (Atari 2600, 1982) * '' Obelix'' (1984)

Unreleased

* '' Donald Duck's Speedboat'' (1982) * ''Miss Piggy's Wedding'' (1983)

Cultural impact

The artwork “Suki Lee: The Hidden Past” by Linda Lai, Yifan Lin and Amanda Zhu was inspired by the game ''Donald Duck's Speedboat''.

References

External links

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