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George Broussard and Scott Miller
Apogee/3D Realms
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If there's a nucleus of 3D action gaming, it's in Dallas, Texas, home to developers such as id Software, Ion Storm, Ritual Entertainment, and Apogee/3D Realms, a company founded by two high-school friends, Scott Miller and George Broussard. From its pioneering and innovative shareware model of game marketing to its creation of '90s gaming hero Duke Nukem, 3D Realms has made an indelible impact on PC gaming.
1. If there were one moment from gaming you'd put in a time capsule to represent the 20th century of interactive entertainment, what moment would it be and why?
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Scott: I'd put the original IBM PC in a time capsule because whether IBM intended it or not, its open architecture allowed all that has happened for PC gaming, from sound cards (remember Ad Lib?) to video cards (CGA, EGA, VGA, SVGA, and 3D accelerators) to PC clones that led to an unstoppable lineage of increasingly powerful PCs. Without IBM's openness with its machine, Intel, Microsoft, and many of the rest of us would likely not be where we're at now.
George: That's a hard question to answer, but since it's going in a time capsule, it should be something fairly significant. I'd say video footage from the "old days," showing lines 10 to 15 people deep, waiting to play a new arcade game that took the world by storm, a game that brought the video game craze to the mass market, spawned countless clones, and created an industry.
That game was Space Invaders.
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