Twelve documents signed by pioneers, developers, and thinkers in the computer and video game industries, each one page, 8.5 x 11, dated from 1985 to 1990, all being releases for Charles Mann's 'Powersharing Series.' Signers are: Trip Hawkins, the founder of Electronic Arts and 3DO; Steve Russell, the creator of Spacewar!, the first widely distributed video game; Chris Crawford, an influential early Atari developer and video game design theorist; Dan Bunten, known for the 1983 game M.U.L.E. (one of the first influential multiplayer video games) and 1984's The Seven Cities of Gold (one of the earliest open world video games); Ken Arnold, a developer of the 1980s dungeon-crawling video game Rogue; Tom Snyder, who developed several educational computer games and introduced the 'Squigglevision' animation technique; Bill Bowman, co-founder of Spinnaker Software; Leonard Tramiel, the vice president of software at Atari; David H. Ahl, the author of BASIC Computer Games, the first computer book to sell more than a million copies; A. K. Dewdney, co-creator of the 1984 programming game Core War; Dave Lebling, a pioneering interactive fiction game designer who co-developed Zork; and Elizabeth Irion, a representative of LucasArts Entertainment. In overall fine condition.
From the Charles Mann Powersharing Collection.
