Bill Grubb

Bill Grubb
Occupation Businessman
Known for Imagic

Bill Grubb (William F.X. Grubb) is a businessman who was the co-founder of Imagic, which was at one time the second largest third party video game publisher in the United States.[1]

Career

Grubb left an 18 month post at Atari as a vice president of marketing[2] to form Imagic. Before that, he was with the marketing department at Black and Decker for 11 years.[3]

It was Grubb's goal to take Imagic public[1] and to eventually overtake Activision as the number one third party video game publisher,[3] but the North American Video Game Crash of 1983 caused Imagic to withdraw its IPO and eventually close its doors in 1985.[4]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "All in the Game - Imagic: The Making of Atlantis". Enterprise. PBS. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
  2. ↑ Hayes, Thomas C. "Imagic Scores in Video Games". The New York Times. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Video Games Interview: Bill Grubb and Dennis Koble". Video Games Magazine. Atari HQ. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
  4. ↑ Cohen, D.S. "Activision Hits Remixed – PSP Game Collection Review". About.com Classic Video Games. About.com.