Alter Ego was a life simulation based on in depth interviews with over 1000 people about their most significant life experiences. Peter jumped at the opportunity to design and program his own games and contracted with Activision to do Alter Ego in 1985.

While doing his doctoral research, supported by Atari, Peter maintained his interest in the nuts and bolts of coding working in machine language, assembler and eventually the first iterations of C. looked at physiological and psychological reactions while playing video games. His master’s thesis concentrated on transfer of training and video game play and his Ph.D. He worked as a consultant to the company and began doing research on psychological aspects of video game design and play. In college he became an avid video game player and after entering graduate school in clinical psychology wrote the Atari company and told them he could add something with his knowledge of psychology and human behavior. Peter’s interest in technology started way before that as a high school student who learned how to program the earliest teletype in computers in BASIC as a high school student.

is a psychologist technologist who has worn both hats in a rich and innovative career since the early 1980’s.

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