Halcyon Days (book)

Halcyon Days: Interviews with Classic Computer and Video Game Programmers is a digital book edited by James Hague and published in 1997.^[1] The book was originally formatted using HTML and sold via mail-order, shipped on a floppy disk by Dadgum Games for USD$20. In 2002 Halcyon Days was made freely available on the web. The book continues to be sold by Dr. Dobb's Journal^[2] on a CD-ROM also containing Susan Lammers's Programmers at Work.

The introduction to Halcyon Days was written by John Romero.

Interviewees

• Ed Averett [1] (Magnavox Odyssey²)
• Danielle Bunten Berry [2] (M.U.L.E., The Seven Cities of Gold)
• Stephen C. Biggs [3]
• Adam Billyard [4]
• Bill Budge [5] (Raster Blaster, Pinball Construction Set)
• Chris Crawford [6] (Wizard, Scram, Eastern Front, Legionnaire, Patton Versus Rommel)
• Steve DeFrisco [7]
• David Fox [8] (Rescue on Fractalus!)
• Jon Freeman & Anne Westfall [9]
• Gary Gilbertson [10]
• Marc Goodman [11] (The Bilestoad)
• Dan Gorlin [12]
• Tom Griner [13]
• Steve Hales [14] (Fort Apocalypse)
• John Harris [15]
• Eugene Jarvis [16]
• David Lubar [17]
• Scott Ludwig [18]
• Archer MacLean [19]
• Jeff Minter [20]
• Brian Moriarty [21]
• Doug Neubauer [22] (Solaris, Star Raiders)
• Philip Price [23]
• Warren Robinett [24]
• Ed Rotberg [25] (Battlezone, Blasteroids, S.T.U.N. Runner)
• Warren Schwader [26] (Sammy Lightfoot)
• Paul Shirley [27] (Spindizzy)
• Tim Skelly [28]

See also

• Coders at work

References

External links

• An Interview with James Hague: Game Developer and Classic Video Game Historian from Jim Lawless' personal web site
• "Fan Captures History of Games' Early Creators" from Wired News (1997)