Robert Woodhead

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Robert J. Woodhead is a entrepreneur, software engineer and former game programmer. He claims that a common thread in his career 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, as well as several of its sequels.

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. He also runs a search engine promotion website called SelfPromotion.com. As a result of this venture, while living in Japan, he married his translator and interpreter, Natsumi Ueki, together with whom he has two children.^[1]

As a hobby, he builds combat robots, and his children, James Ueki and Alex Ueki, are the 2004 and 2005 Robot Fighting League 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. He also has a screen credit in the film Real Genius as their "Hacking Consultant".