He developed several games, including a VCS implementation of chess, a feat many other programmers considered impossible for the system.
[1] He and his co-workers David Crane, Larry Kaplan, and Alan Miller became informally known as the "Gang of Four", a group of developers who felt inadequately compensated for their work despite being collectively responsible for 60 percent of the company's profits from VCS cartridge sales.
Eventually the Gang of Four, disgruntled by the management's decline to provide more recognition and fair compensation to the developers, decided to leave Atari and start their own business.
After leaving Accolade, Whitehead says he helped with "low income families, getting non-profit religious start-ups going, [and] spending time in the garden.
The console and computer gaming business is too narrowly defined by the 14 [year old] male mentality and all his not-so-honorable fantasies.