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John Anderson wrote several articles a month for Creative Computing, particularly covering the Atari beat. He was a definite hero of mine as a kid. Sadly he was killed in this earthquake

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Loma_Prieta_earthquake

at the age of 33.

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Sad story. There’s a Wikipedia page for him which also remembers his colleague, Derek van Alstyne, who died alongside him, both caught by bad luck in a building collapse during the quake: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_J._Anderson

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