Ed Rotberg was the primary designer/programmer for the 1980 arcade game Battlezone which was the first true, first-person 3D video game.  Battlezone is listed as  the #5 game in 1up’s (1up.com) list of “The Most Important Games Ever Made”.  It is ranked as the #12 Coin-Operated video game on the Killer List of Video Games www.klov.com.  It is among the 100 video games chosen to be included the Videotopia Exhibit, an international traveling museum exhibit chronicling the history of mankind's first interactive media.   After its release, Atari was contacted by a consulting group for the US military, wanting a conversion of the game for use as a training device for it’s Bradley Fighting Vehicles.  The original game has been ported to many other systems and included in numerous collections of classic arcade hits, as recently as April, 2008 for XBOX Live.  It has also been credited as the first embodiment of the first-person shooter genre of video games.  Battlezone is also featured in many books of the video game era including Supercade (by Van Burnham) and High Score! (by Russel De Maria and Johnny L. Wilson).