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The Interview: William D. Volk

October 7, 2010April 1, 2014 J.A. Laraque 3 Comments Activision, American interactive media, amiga, apple ii, Atari 800, Avalon hill, chris Lombardi memorial puzzle, classic games, comdex, conflict 2500, cyan, david barrett, death track, diamond reverse parser, EA, eddie dombrower, flight control, fm towns, frank D Kelley, gaming, ghostbusters, Grand Theft Auto, hypercard, infocom games, iPhone, john skeel, lgop2, lords of karma, Mac, magnavoix, mech warrior, MIDI, mobile gaming, Myst, Philips cd-1, PlayScreen, Pong, pyramid of peril, rand miller, return to zork, rising star, robyn miller, Russell lieblich, sam and max, sherri cuono, space wars, spaceship yamato, star raiders, stewart alsop, textronix, the manhold, tongue of the fatman, val draw, video game crash, voyager, William D. Volk interview, William Volk

I could see true greatness in the creativity of Rand and Robyn Miller (Cyan). The User Interface was just breakthrough. I was also a bit pissed at the delay of CD-I and wanted to send a message about that. Activision was recovering from the video game crash and wanted something that was ground breaking. Finally Stewart Alsop suggested that the Manhole would be an ideal CD-ROM title. He was right. ~William D. Volk