Tempest Posted September 27, 2002 Share Posted September 27, 2002 I was doing some research on RS Basketball for the Atari 5200 when I came across this little blurb on a computer awards page. Patrick Bass (1997) for Atari SW (Posthumous) Does this mean that Patrick Bass is dead? I thought I heard a rumor about that years ago, but I passed it off as a myth (much like the Matthew Hubbard is dead myth). Anyone know for sure? Tempest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dutchman2000 Posted September 27, 2002 Share Posted September 27, 2002 I saw the same thing months ago, I thought it was a reference to the fact that Atari is no more and he was being recognized for his work there years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted September 27, 2002 Author Share Posted September 27, 2002 God I hope so. I'd hate to think we lost a programmer and didn't know about it. Anyone know of his current whereabouts? Tempest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted September 27, 2002 Share Posted September 27, 2002 Sorry Tempest, I have no idea if Patrick Bass is still alive or if yes, where he is. But for those interested here are a bunch of articles he wrote for Start magazine. http://www.atarimagazines.com/index/index....+Bass&mag=antic Anybody know if he wrote anything else for Atari other than 5200 RS Basketball? One more thing. Here's a quote from one of his articles. Maybe this might help you in your search. It says his family is from Southern California. Patrick Bass Wrote in '85: So one Thursday when I'd just gotten home from being told I was overqualified to deliver pizzas, my father told me Antic phoned and wanted me to come up to San Francisco and see the editors. The next morning I hopped onto my Yamaha 250 motorcycle and hit the freeway. Shortly before noon, Antic sat me down at a 520ST and wouldn't let me leave. Allan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cx2k Posted September 28, 2002 Share Posted September 28, 2002 I was doing some research on RS Basketball for the Atari 5200 when I came across this little blurb on a computer awards page. Patrick Bass (1997) for Atari SW (Posthumous) Does this mean that Patrick Bass is dead? I thought I heard a rumor about that years ago, but I passed it off as a myth (much like the Matthew Hubbard is dead myth). Anyone know for sure? Tempest I'm pretty sure that he has passed away. After losing touch with him many years ago, I also did a search and turned up the page you mentioned. I emailed the people responsible for the page about a year ago to ask if he had truly passed away and never got any response. His last known location, to me anyway, was El Paso, TX. John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
holygrailvideogames.com Posted October 4, 2002 Share Posted October 4, 2002 I don't know if this is the same Patrick Bass or not, but this is the information that I could find. PATRICK W BASS Residence: 99218 Spokane, Spokane, WA Born 26 Feb 1948 Last Benefit: Died 6 Oct 1992 Issued: WA (1963) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KAZ Posted October 5, 2002 Share Posted October 5, 2002 In the music world, like classical music...posthumous refers to work published AFTER a composer has died. Like there are several Chopin classical pieces that are Posthumous, meaning that he didn't get around to publishing them before he died, so someone else did it for him. Posthumous usually means cool stuff that a composer never wanted anyone to know about, because they thought it was bad-or incomplete, or whatever. It becomes more cool because of that reason. But who knows what Posthumous has come to mean nowdays... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dutchman2000 Posted March 10, 2003 Share Posted March 10, 2003 I'm afraid I can confirm what we all suspected. Patrick Bass died in an automobile accident outside of Baton Rouge, LA. in March of 1998. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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+Allan Posted March 10, 2003 Share Posted March 10, 2003 I'm afraid I can confirm what we all suspected. Patrick Bass died in an automobile accident outside of Baton Rouge, LA. in March of 1998. Just for the record, where did you read/hear this? Allan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MegaManFan Posted March 10, 2003 Share Posted March 10, 2003 I don't know if this is the same Patrick Bass or not, but this is the information that I could find. PATRICK W BASS Request Information (SS-5) SSN *DELETED* Residence: 99218 Spokane, Spokane, WA Born 26 Feb 1948 Last Benefit: Died 6 Oct 1992 Issued: WA (1963) Dude if that's really his SSN (or anybody's real SSN) you shouldn't publish that information in a public forum. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dutchman2000 Posted March 10, 2003 Share Posted March 10, 2003 I was in contact with his family who confirmed this and gave me the information. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPUWIZ Posted March 10, 2003 Share Posted March 10, 2003 Dude if that's really his SSN (or anybody's real SSN) you shouldn't publish that information in a public forum. I second that, Tempest could you edit that post please ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted March 10, 2003 Author Share Posted March 10, 2003 Done! I would have done it sooner, but I didn't notice it was in the 5200 forum which I can mod. Tempest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
holygrailvideogames.com Posted March 11, 2003 Share Posted March 11, 2003 I am sorry for listing the social security number. The information that I provided was from the U.S. government social security web site. Since this person has passed away the information is considered public information. You can actually go on that site and type in a name and if that name is in the database the social security number will show up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MegaManFan Posted March 11, 2003 Share Posted March 11, 2003 I am sorry for listing the social security number. The information that I provided was from the U.S. government social security web site. Since this person has passed away the information is considered public information. You can actually go on that site and type in a name and if that name is in the database the social security number will show up. That's fine because it's on a U.S. government site, but that doesn't mean it's fine to reprint that information outside the site. I've seen too many cases in the news and on TV of indentity thefts that occured when someone took the SSN off of somebody who was dead and created false ID's and even credit cards. Someone doing it local to the family of the victim would be caught, but on the internet the thief could be thousands and thousands of miles away from the source and years could go by with someone lying and stealing all in a dead person's name - it's a truly disgusting thought no? But this is getting Off-Topic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cx2k Posted March 11, 2003 Share Posted March 11, 2003 Wow. That is sad. The couple of times I spoke with him years ago, he seemed like a really nice guy. Now I wish I had talked to him more. Thanks for confirming that info Dutchman. John I was in contact with his family who confirmed this and gave me the information. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhreakFakt0r Posted May 3, 2020 Share Posted May 3, 2020 On 9/27/2002 at 7:55 AM, Tempest said: I was doing some research on RS Basketball for the Atari 5200 when I came across this little blurb on a computer awards page. Patrick Bass (1997) for Atari SW (Posthumous) Does this mean that Patrick Bass is dead? I thought I heard a rumor about that years ago, but I passed it off as a myth (much like the Matthew Hubbard is dead myth). Anyone know for sure? Tempest Patrick Bass was my roommate in 1998 in Houstln, TX. I can verify he died that year in an automobile accident in Baton Rouge traveling from our appt in Houston to Memphis in 1998. That year his brother lived in El Paso and his grandmother lived in Mumford, TN just north of Memphos, TN. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted May 3, 2020 Author Share Posted May 3, 2020 17 hours ago, PhreakFakt0r said: Patrick Bass was my roommate in 1998 in Houstln, TX. I can verify he died that year in an automobile accident in Baton Rouge traveling from our appt in Houston to Memphis in 1998. That year his brother lived in El Paso and his grandmother lived in Mumford, TN just north of Memphos, TN. Thanks for the information. I believe Dutchman2000 talked to Patrick's brother a while back and got all of his Atari documentation about RS Basketball. It's always such a shock when people die so young. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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