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A chat with Gary Carlston of Brøderbund (spillhistorie.no)
submitted 2 days ago by Retrogamingpappa@lemmy.ca to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
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Brøderbund might not have been among the most productive game publishers in the eighties and nineties, but you could bet any game they did publish was of a high quality. The American company released games like Lode Runner, Choplifter, Karateka, Prince of Persia, Wings of Fury, SimCity, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego and Myst, and with gems like these they had a big influence on computer and video games as a whole.

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[–] GrindingGears@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago

Broderbund is right up there with top tier game makers, their games may be largely relegated to the history books now, but for all the right reasons. You didn't even have to be a big video gamer, to appreciate one for their products (think Carmen Sandiego or Sim City). They definitely had an outsized impact on the industry, and I think we'd all be in a better place today if companies like them were allowed to thrive. Instead we get private equity, beta tier releases and preordering. Not to even mention all these stupid remake$

[–] JTskulk@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I used to have all 50 capital cities memorized from Carmen Sandiego, Broderbund was the goat.