Hal Canon

Hal L. Canon

Born Birth Place Unknown Nationality American   Aliases HLC

Hal Canon is a composer, foley artist and computer programmer best known for his work with Atari.

Canon worked at Atari, from around 1984 to 1989. While there, he composed music and sound effects for a large portion of their games. Canon was also a game designer and programmer, creating a game for the Atari 2600 called Animated Puzzle. A prototype was made, but the game was never published.

Canon's current whereabouts is a mystery, not even his former colleagues at Atari know where he is.

Gameography

Released	Title	Sample	Notes
1984-??-??	Marble Madness (ARC)
1984-??-??	Paperboy (ARC)
1985-10-??	Gauntlet (ARC)
1985-??-??	Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (ARC)		Sound Effects
1985-??-??	Road Runner (ARC)
1986-12-??	Gauntlet (C64)		Arranged by Ben Daglish.
1986-??-??	720° (ARC)
1986-??-??	Championship Sprint (ARC)
1986-??-??	Super Sprint (ARC)
1987-11-??	720° PAL (C64)		Arranged by Ben Daglish.
1987-??-??	APB: All Points Bulletin (ARC)
1987-??-??	Gauntlet (NES)
1987-??-??	Xybots (ARC)
1988-??-??	720° NTSC (C64)		Arranged by Unknown.
1988-??-??	Cyberball: Football in the 21st Century (ARC)
1988-??-??	Toobin' (ARC)
1988-??-??	Vindicators (ARC)
1988-??-??	Vindicators (NES)		Arranged by Paul Mudra and Dwight Okahara
1988-??-??	Vindicators Part II (ARC)
1988-12-??	Paperboy (NES)		Arranged by Nick Eastridge
1989-??-??	APB - All Points Bulletin (C64)		Arranged by David Whittaker.
1989-??-??	Cyberball 2072 (ARC)
1989-??-??	Marble Madness (NES)		Arranged by David Wise
1989-??-??	Skull & Crossbones (ARC)
1989-??-??	Super Sprint (NES)		Sound Effects
1989-??-??	Toobin' (NES)		Arranged by Brad Fuller, Don Diekneite and John Paul.
1989-??-??	Tournament Cyberball 2072 (ARC)
1990-07-17	Cyberball (GEN)
1990-??-??	Paperboy (LYNX)		Arranged by David Tumminaro.
1993-09-16	Gauntlet IV (GEN)
1993-09-17	Gauntlet (SMD)

Links

• mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,142468/ - MobyGames.