Tony Cruise

Tony Cruise has worked in IT and application development for more than 40 years, starting with programming and releasing games for multiple 8-bit systems in the 1980s. Author of more than 100 released titles, books, and magazine articles, today he is actively writing new games and utilities and creating resources for other developers working with 8- and 16-bit systems.

books by Tony Cruise

Classic Game Programming on the NES
  • June 2024
  • ISBN 9781633438019
  • 320 pages
Included with a Manning Online subscription
  • printed in color

Classic Game Programming on the NES distills the scattered secrets of NES development into clear instructions for building your first games for the Nintendo Entertainment System. You’ll learn about the NES’s unique design, the surprisingly simple 6502 Assembly language, and more. As you go, you’ll create a simple space-based shoot-em-up that gives you a pattern you can follow to build anything you can dream up on your own.