![]() “It’s paced well,” said Graeme Devine, chief executive of Trilobyte Inc., another computer game maker. Phantasmagoria was designed with the general computer user in mind. That is one of the industry’s big challenges as it attempts to appeal to the general marketplace rather than remain of interest solely to hard-core gamers. ![]() Others too point out that it’s tempting-and all too common-to create games with blazing graphics and ear-popping sound that don’t have much of a plot to keep a player’s interest. “She’s just a good storyteller, and that’s the thing that’s been lacking in games.” “She’s one of the best in the world, no arguing about that,” said David Farina, a securities analyst at William Blair & Co. Roberta, who isn’t a programmer but instead works in the realm of characters and plots, designs games. That first game, introduced in 1980, evolved into Sierra On-Line, one of the nation’s leading computer game companies, with revenue of $83.4 million for the fiscal year ended March 31. The result: Mystery House, which the company touts as the first computer game to use graphics to provide pictures as well as text. Williams and her husband, a programmer, decided to create a game of their own based on a murder mystery. “I have never been pulled into anything so hard in my life,” she said. ![]() Williams soon found herself playing one of the early text-only games. Williams’ romance with computer games began after she and her husband, Ken, set up a new Apple computer bought for Christmas, 1979. ![]()
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