In fairness, what else could they have done, given the time constraints? They even hired support staff to make sure he got fed! They surely didn&#x27;t have source control or other systems to make it safe&#x2F;easy for multiple programmers to work on it together. I imagine the code is some monolithic thing full of complicated Atari hacks that&#x27;s best managed by being all together in one person&#x27;d mind.<p>Perhaps they could have made two games in parallel so if one failed, they&#x27;d still have a spare.