---
title: "Warren Robinett"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "person"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "Warren Robinett"
aliases: []
first_seen: "2026-08-16T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["easter egg","Atari Adventure","credit-misattribution","William Weiher","uncredited labor"]
seek_code_commit: "17d9798"
---


Video-game designer who, in 1979, hid a hidden room reading "Created by Warren Robinett" inside Atari's *Adventure* after Atari refused to publicly credit its designers on titles that, by his own account, earned the company "hundreds of millions" — widely cited as the first well-known video-game [[entity-easter-egg|easter egg]]. Matters to this vault as a second case in its credit-misattribution cluster (alongside Monte Davidoff and Ann Hardy), and as the later, better-known half of a cross-decade pair with [[entity-william-weiher|William Weiher]]'s 1967–68 TOPS-10 hack, which predates it.

## References
- [[claim-robinett-hid-name-in-atari-adventure-as-uncredited-designer-signature]]
- Captures: 10-inbox/raw/2026-08-16-hop-programmer-signature-colophon.md