The Digital Antiquarian

Stevie Case and John Romero early in their courtship.

Opus 6: The Taming of the Shrew

This article tells part of the story of John Romero.

The Tudor Queens Also, a little programming note: there will go one extra week between this article on The Analog Antiquarian and the next one on The Digital Antiquarian.

This article tells the last part of the story of Lemmings.

This Porsche is very much leashed.

Rehabilitating Richard

Your humble author in 2009, with his last even vaguely cool car, a 2000 Volkswagen GTI.

This article tells part of the story of Maxis Software.

Hi, folks… I’ll have the last article in the series on Maxis Software for you next week.

Would you trust these two men with your investment?

This article tells part of the story of Maxis Software.

Although I’ve played way too many games for way too many hours over the way too many years I’ve been writing these histories, it’s safe to say that I haven’t spent more time with any one game than Heroes of Might and Magic II.

The photographer’s model for the visage of The Nameless One on the now-iconic Planescape: Torment box was actually Guido Henkel, the game’s producer, who was enlisted at the last minute when the planned professional model had a “scheduling conflict.”

By 1999, Interplay had begun crediting its internally developed CRPGs to “Black Isle Studios,” a distinction that represented very little difference, given that Black Isle shared office space and personnel with its parent publisher.