Gamechanger – Defender Of The Crown
When Trip Hawkins founded Electronic Arts in 1982, he did so with a vision that a software company should borrow from the record industry for its business model. Bob and Phyllis Jacob, on the...
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Gamechanger – Balance Of Power
Late 1983 through 1984 were a pivotal time for the computer and video game industry. The Great Video Game Crash seemed to have no end in sight. Atari, careening towards bankruptcy, was drastically slashing...
Gamechanger – Bill Budge
December 31st, 1995, the last of Bill Watterson‘s Calvin & Hobbes cartoon strips ran, ending a 10-year run of brilliance and influence over a new-generation of cartoonists. Watterson left the industry he didn’t really...
Gamechanger – Spy vs. Spy
Antonio Prohias was the most celebrated cartoonist in Cuba, winner of multiple awards, and especially known for his biting political cartoons. In 1959, Fidel Castro honored Prohias personally, but by 1960, Castro had himself...
Gamechanger – Ballblazer
In 1984, George Lucas expanded his empire, and the Lucasfilm Games brand launched by releasing two games. Rescue on Fractalus! was a first-person flight-rescue simulation, similar to Choplifter. It certainly was a fun game,...
This Old Game – NATO Commander
Before he became a universally-accaimmed game designer, Sid Meier was just a recent computer science graduate from the University of Michigan. All-be-it, one who could beat the crap out of an actual retired Air Force pilot, Bill...
Gamechanger – Star League Baseball
In 1983, a small software company in Santa Barbara, California, Gamestar, Inc., released a groundbreaking new baseball game – Star League Baseball. The game itself was still simple. Two teams, still no leagues or...
Gamechanger – M.U.L.E.
In 1983, Electronic Arts shipped a critically important game, and an extremely worthy Geekometry Gamechangers launch title. Although, at the time, no one knew how important it would become. Developed by Ozark Softscape and designed...
