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Episode 190 | Roberta Williams on being Foot Loose and Fancy Free
Humans of Gaming Podcast
English - September 16, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 131 MB - ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsVideo Games Leisure Religion & Spirituality Christianity humans of gaming love thy nerd nerd interviews board games video games Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Roberta Williams (Kings Quest, Mystery House, Phantasmagoria) joins Drew to talk about her and her husband Ken's entry into the video game industry. It involves taking Cobalt courses at local colleges, discovering games on Ken's remote work IBM 360 Mainframe computer such as Colossal Cave Adventure, and a lot of margaritas. Roberta walks us through the early days of what would become Sierra Online through the publishing of her first novel historical-fiction novel based in the 19th century during the height of the potato famine in Ireland.