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{{Short description|Video game designer}}
'''Dave Akers''' is a video game programmer and designer who worked on the [[M Network]] ports of ''[[BurgerTime]]'',<ref>[http://www.churchofburgertime.com/history/at26tbtime.html burgertime Atari 2600<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> ''[[Bump 'n' Jump]]'',<ref>[http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/a2600/data/584603.html Bump 'N' Jump Info - Bump 'N' Jump Information - Bump 'N' Jump Release Date<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> and ''[[Star Strike]]''<ref>[http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/a2600/data/585147.html Star Strike Info – Star Strike Information – Star Strike Release Date<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> for the [[Atari 2600]]. He co-designed  the 1989 arcade game ''[[Klax (video game)|Klax]]'' with Mark Stephen Pierce<ref name="Klax">[http://www.arcade-history.com/index.php?page=detail&id=1300 klax, video game at arcade-history<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> and worked on ''[[Escape from the Planet of the Robot Monsters]]''.<ref>[http://www.digitpress.com/DP/cmf/game.cmf?gameid=39861 Digital Press – Escape From The Planet Of The Robot Monsters<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>

Akers prototyped ''Klax'' in [[AmigaBASIC]] in just a few weeks, then ported it line-by-line to [[C (programming language)|C]].<ref name="Klax" />

As of the spring of 2006, Akers was working as an English teacher in [[Numazu]], [[Japan]].

In 2013, Dave Akers developed ''Paddle Party'',<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150812012233/http://elektronite.com/Games/Paddle_Party.htm Paddle Party <!-- Paddle Party -->]</ref> a game for Intellivision released by Elektronite.

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