Dave Akers

{{Short description|Video game designer}}

Dave Akers is a video game programmer and designer who worked on the M Network ports of BurgerTime,[http://www.churchofburgertime.com/history/at26tbtime.html burgertime Atari 2600] Bump 'n' Jump,[http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/a2600/data/584603.html Bump 'N' Jump Info - Bump 'N' Jump Information - Bump 'N' Jump Release Date] and Star Strike[http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/a2600/data/585147.html Star Strike Info – Star Strike Information – Star Strike Release Date] for the Atari 2600. He co-designed the 1989 arcade game Klax with Mark Stephen Pierce[http://www.arcade-history.com/index.php?page=detail&id=1300 klax, video game at arcade-history] and worked on Escape from the Planet of the Robot Monsters.[http://www.digitpress.com/DP/cmf/game.cmf?gameid=39861 Digital Press – 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.

In 2013, Dave Akers developed Paddle Party,[https://web.archive.org/web/20150812012233/http://elektronite.com/Games/Paddle_Party.htm Paddle Party ] a game for Intellivision released by Elektronite.