Lyle Rains was a senior executive at the arcade game company
Atari and is sometimes, with
Ed Logg, listed as a co-
developer of the
video game Asteroids. In fact, Rains called Logg into his office and said "Well, why don’t we have a game where you shoot the rocks and blow them up?". Rains also served as Executive Producer for a large number of Atari coin-op games. An avid gamer, he wrote a popular online
FAQ for the Atari coin-op game
KLAX.