“‘Well, we could be selling so much more if we were cross console'”.
Most people today will largely associate Ed Fries with his role as an Xbox co-founder and Microsoft’s vice president of gaming in the late ’90s and early 2000s, but his career in games actually dates back a lot further than that.
Before joining Microsoft, in the early ’80s, for instance, he developed a series of arcade-inspired Atari 8-bit games for a Southern California company named Romox while still in education. This included a clone of the popular Konami arcade game Frogger, titled Princess and Frog. The money he earned from these games, he has admitted in the past, wasn’t exactly great, but, being young and eager to make an impression, he jumped at the opportunity to program for a living and hoped to see his arrangement with Romox continue as the decade progressed. However, in 1984, the publisher pretty much vanished overnight amid the North American video game industry crash, forcing him to find what he jokingly calls “a real job.”
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“‘Well, we could be selling so much more if we were cross console'”.
Most people today will largely associate Ed Fries with his role as an Xbox co-founder and Microsoft’s vice president of gaming in the late ’90s and early 2000s, but his career in games actually dates back a lot further than that.
Before joining Microsoft, in the early ’80s, for instance, he developed a series of arcade-inspired Atari 8-bit games for a Southern California company named Romox while still in education. This included a clone of the popular Konami arcade game Frogger, titled Princess and Frog. The money he earned from these games, he has admitted in the past, wasn’t exactly great, but, being young and eager to make an impression, he jumped at the opportunity to program for a living and hoped to see his arrangement with Romox continue as the decade progressed. However, in 1984, the publisher pretty much vanished overnight amid the North American video game industry crash, forcing him to find what he jokingly calls “a real job.”
Read the full article on timeextension.com
