Salon has an excellent article on Dani Bunten. Dani was the creator the best computer game I ever played, M.U.L.E. She also made Seven Cities of Gold, a revolutionary game for the time that was the forerunner for all the RTS games that followed.
It is truly sad that a woman that brought so much innovation to gaming was stuck by cancer just as the internet opened up a whole new world of gaming.
Posted by michael at March 18, 2003 10:21 PM | TrackBackHave you ever played Wasteland (The precursor to Fallout/FalloutII)?
That was a cool game.
Posted by: BilB [http://squidly.com] on March 19, 2003 05:47 AMActually, I haven't.
From about '97 to '01 I was obsessed with Ultima Online and didn't play hardly any other game except Quake.
I've heard that series was good, but I've always preferred multiplayer games to single player. The best games on our Intellivision were Boxing & Sea Battle because I could play against another person.
Posted by: Michael [http://cruftbox.com] on March 19, 2003 07:11 AMNot that Mike could ever actually beat me in Intellivision boxing...
Posted by: Matt P [http://www.crookdimwit.com] on March 19, 2003 07:18 AMI was a UO addict from launch date until about a year and a half after. Then I sold everything stripped naked and gave it all away in the middle of town. I was very very popular for about 20 minutes... :)
Wasteland predates UO by quite a bit.
http://www.gamespy.com/legacy/halloffame/wasteland.shtm