Robert Woodhead

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If there is any common thread in Robert J. Woodhead's career, it is "doing weird things with computers". Along with Andrew C. Greenberg, he created the Apple II game Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord, one of the first role-playing games (RPGs) written for a personal computer. Later, he authored Interferon and Virex, two of the earliest anti-virus applications for the Macintosh, and co-founded AnimEigo, one of the first US anime releasing companies. As a hobby, he builds combat robots, and his children, James Ueki and Alex Ueki, are the 2004 National Champions in the 30 lb Featherweight class.

Woodhead made a cameo appearance in the 1982 RPG Ultima II as an NPC; when the Avatar talked to him he would scream "Copy Protect!", a sarcastic reference to the extensive copy protection methods used in computer games of the time.