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Geek's Guide to the Galaxy - A Science Fiction Podcast

523. Ken and Roberta Williams on Sierra Online and Colossal Cave Adventure

Geek's Guide to the Galaxy - A Science Fiction Podcast

David Barr Kirtley

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4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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This episode of Geeks Guide to the Galaxy is made possible thanks to support from listeners

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like you, so if you enjoyed the show and wanted to continue, please support us on Patreon

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over at patreon.com slash geeks, or via PayPal over at geeks guide show dot com slash crowd

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funding.

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And so I want to give a special thank you to Keith Collinsworth and Mazzie, who both just

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signed up this week to support us on Patreon.

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So big thanks again to everyone who's contributed, we really appreciate it.

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All right, so now let's get to our show.

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Wired dot com presents the Geeks guide to the galaxy.

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And here is your host, David Barr Curtley.

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Hello and welcome to episode 523 of Geeks Guide to the Galaxy.

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I'm David Barr Curtley, author of the book Save Me Please and Other Stories, which is

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available now on amazon.com.

1:03.8

We had a great conversation about the book back in episode 500, so definitely check that

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out if you missed it.

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And our guest today are Ken and Roberta Williams, co-founders of Sierra Online, the company

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behind such classic computer games as King's Quest, Space Quest, and Quest for Glory.

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And in this interview we'll be discussing Ken and Roberta's new game, Colossal Cave,

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reimagined by Roberta Williams, a remake of the genre defining Colossal Cave adventure

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by Will Crowther and Dawn Woods.

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We'll also be discussing Ken's book, Not All Fairy Tales, Have Happy Endings, about the

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rise and fall of Sierra Online, and Roberta's historical novel, Farewell to Terra, about

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