Podcast appearances and mentions of Roberta Williams

This week we take a trip back in time to reminisce about what it was like to be a fellow under famed pediatric cardiology pioneer Dr. Alexander S. Nadas. Who better to tell us about what life was like under this giant than 4 present-day giants who lived through it and got their start working for Professor Nadas. Joining the podcast in a live recording from the Boston Children's Cardiology 75th Anniversary Alumni Reunion on May 3rd are Dr. Roberta Williams, Dr. John Barry Keane, Dr. Patricia Rompf and Dr. Thomas Hougen. All have many stories to tell and they share their remembrances and insights in this special episode honoring the memory of the founder of the cardiac program at Boston Children's Hospital - Dr. Nadas. 

Airdate: March 31, 2024. TSC News TV host Fred Richani interviews legendary video game designer Roberta Williams and video game developer Ken Williams about their incredible legacy in the industry, founding Sierra On-Line, the latest release of Colossal Cave, and traveling the world during retirement! Special thanks to Marcus Mera. Ken and Roberta Williams have worked on over 200 video game titles including: King's Quest, Colossal Cave remake, Phantasmagoria, Mystery House, Police Quest, and Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards.   For more info: https://www.colossalcave3d.com/ ✅Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/TSCGaming?sub_confirmation=1   Ken and Roberta Williams Interview Time Stamps:  00:00 Colossal Cave, fan feedback 02:00 Sierra On-Line 03:33 Getting back into gaming industry with Marcus Mera 09:54 Colossal Cave 2.0, challenges with every gaming platform 12:05 Colossal Cave being passion project 15:15 Favorite games, awkward moments 16:28 Traveling worldwide by boat, retirement 21:09 Being supportive partners, teamwork 24:54 Ken and Roberta Williams on why you should play Colossal Cave If you share this, please use #TSCGamingEnt #TSCNews #ColossalCave!

Join me as we discuss one of the most important adventure games ever created, Sierra On-Line's King's Quest!  Learn how the game was made, discover why Roberta Williams decided to get into game design in the first place, and find out whether the very first King's Quest adventure, in its original form, is still worth your time today. Join the discussion on Discord! Want more Classic Gaming Today?  Sign up as a patron at Patreon.com/ClassicGamingToday!

On the 100th Episode Special of Talking to Women about Videogames, Jonathan and Tanya lament beginnings end while celebrating new beginnings. They talk about the end of Game Informer Magazine, music from the videogame Pocket Card Jockey, and the possible rebirth of Tango Gameworks? Jonathan talks with Eniko Fox of Kitsune Games about her Super Mario 3-like game, "Kitsune Tails." He also chatted with Julia Minamata about her text parser new game "The Crimson Diamond" that's out this week, along with Julia's meeting of her hero Roberta Williams of Sierra Entertainment/King's Quest fame. And finally Jonathan and Tanya announce some hints about the future of this podcast feed!Show Notes:0:00:00 - I Want a Feel Bad Movie0:02:56 - The 100th Episode Special!0:03:54 - GameStop Has Stopped Game Informer0:07:00 - Kitsune Tails, A Game for Everyone with Eniko Fox0:34:45 - Funky Monkey Style0:36:26 - A Second Life for Tango Gameworks?0:38:15 - What Might Happen to Game Informer?0:39:19 - Celebrating Unique Perspectives in Game Design with Julia Minamata1:09:54 - The Future of This Podcast Feed1:11:56 - Octopus Time1:13:27 - Wrap Up/Plugs/Thank You Patrons!1:17:07 - Ass All Day Video interview with Julia! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDpCR58oW1I Eniko Fox on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/eniko.bsky.socialKitsune Games Website: https://kitsunegames.com/Kitsune Tails on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1325260/Kitsune_Tails/Julia Minamata on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JuliaMinamataThe Crimson Diamond Website: https://www.thecrimsondiamond.com/The Crimson Diamond on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1098770/The_Crimson_Diamond/Support the show here! https://www.patreon.com/ttwav

After 5 years and 200 episodes this year has been a year of milestones. It was also the year we did a live interview with Tony Warriner at Reboot Develop Blue in Dubrovnik, where we hosted a panel for the first time at AdventureX and where we had none other than Roberta Williams on the podcast. Oh and we were nominated for the People's choice Podcast awards! This year the team also expanded to help review even more games for your listening pleasure. So to celebrate these achievements let's listen back to some of the highlights from this podcast for the past year. And stay tuned as there will be plenty more to look forward to in 2024! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year everybody! Adventure Games Podcast Official SiteIf you would like to stay up to date make sure you subscribe to the podcast. You can subscribe and listen to this podcast on Itunes and Spotify and all other major Podcast Platforms! You can also subscribe to our Youtube channel for extra video content such as video reviews, video interviews, trailers and gameplay.You can also support the podcast at our PatreonYou can review this podcast here: https://ratethispodcast.com/adventuregamespodcast You can also find this podcast on our social media below:FacebookTwitterInstagramDiscordYou can also find the RSS feed here: http://www.adventuregamespodcast.com/podcast?format=rssLogo created by Siobhan. You can find her on Twitter and Instagram Music is Speedy Delta (ID 917) by Lobo Loco and can be found here:http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Lobo_Loco/Welcome/Speedy_Delta_ID_917_1724

Almost thirty years ago Sierra released Phantasmagoria which what would go on to be their most controversial game of all time. At the time Robert Williams was best known for her family friendly King's Quest games so it was quite a shock to see her make an adult horror game which included a controversial rape scene and plenty of gore. This was Sierra's most ambitious and most expensive production which caused many challenges for the cast and crew to film and produce and as a result was delayed several times before eventually being released on August 24th 1995. In this special Halloween episode Seoirse, drawing on information online, from the official Sierra Guidebook for Phantasmagoria and his own conversations with actor David Lee Homb and Roberta Williams herself, gives some background details on the origins, filming, production and release and reception of the game. He also gives some interesting facts about the filming of the game and he gives his own non spoiler and spoiler filled review of the game.And if you want more about this game then check out our Patreon for exclusive episode where Seoirse runs down the most gruesome murders in the game!So join us as we take a deep dive into one of the most talked about horror games of all time!Phantasmagoria music composed by Mark SeibertSong “Take a Stand” by Mark SeibertOfficial Phantasmagoria soundtrack at The Sierra ChestPhantasmagoria GOG SteamAdventure Games Podcast Official SiteIntro (00:00:25)Origins (00:04:58)Background & Filming (00:07:50)Release & Reception (00:19:02)Interesting Facts (00:25:48)Non-Spoiler Review (00:31:49)Spoiler Recap & Recap (00:55:41)If you would like to stay up to date make sure you subscribe to the podcast. You can subscribe and listen to this podcast on Itunes and Spotify and all other major Podcast Platforms! You can also subscribe to our Youtube channel for extra video content such as video reviews, video interviews, trailers and gameplay.You can also support the podcast at our PatreonYou can review this podcast here: https://ratethispodcast.com/adventuregamespodcast You can also find this podcast on our social media below:Facebook Twitter Instagram DiscordYou can also find the RSS feed here: http://www.adventuregamespodcast.com/podcast?format=rssLogo created by Siobhan. You can find her on Twitter and Instagram Music is Speedy Delta (ID 917) by Lobo Loco and can be found here:http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Lobo_Loco/Welcome/Speedy_Delta_ID_917_172

Per ragioni a me oscure, quando si parla di personalità femminili nel mondo del gaming, ci si dimentica di Roberta Williams: game designer, sceneggiatrice e co-fondatrice di Sierra On-Line.  Roberta Williams ha fatto la storia del gaming, scrivendo e ideando opere quali: Mystery House e la saga di King's Quest. In particolar modo, la Williams è la mente dietro l'opera oggetto di questo speciale: Phantasmagoria.  Prima di Hideo Kojima, Neil Druckmann e molte altre menti che hanno evoluto il gaming, Roberta Williams ha rivoluzionato sistemi di sviluppo e storytelling, ispirando generazioni di game designer e autori videoludici.  A metà degli anni ‘90, Roberta Williams cambia l'industria videoludica e diventa una delle più influenti icone del mezzo. Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠Buy Me a Coffee

This episode features HomeWord, released in 1983 by Sierra On-Line. It was written by Ken and Roberta Williams.

This week we go back in time 2 years ago and we spend the entire episode speaking with Professor Peter Lang of Harvard University about his rich and long career in pediatric cardiology during one of the most exciting times of the field. Dr. Lang's story includes a virtual who's who of important cardiologists and cardiac surgeons for the past 50 years including Dr. Connie Hayes, Dr. Roberta Williams, Dr. Alexander Nadas, Dr. Richard Van Praagh, Dr. Aldo Castaneda, Dr. Bill Norwood and many, many more. This is a rare opportunity to hear about the development of the Norwood procedure from someone who was at the bedside of the first 30-50 ever performed as well as someone who helped develop the entire field of cardiac critical care. Prepare to be inspired by this towering figure this week.

We are talking to US Equestrian Managing Director, Laura Roberts, for updates on North American Youth Championships happening next week in Michigan. Then, Karen Isberg tells us about the importance of supplementing electrolights during the hot summer months. And, we are also talking history of the NAYCH with George and Roberta Williams. Listen in...GUESTS AND LINKS DRESSAGE EPISODE 723:Co-Hosts: Reese Koffler-Stanfield and Philip ParkesGuest: Laura RobertsGuest: Karen IsbergGuest: George Williams and Roberta WilliamsHRN Merchandise! Find a complete line of screen printed stuff…. and The embroidered merchandise at…Follow Dressage Radio Show on Facebook, and follow Horse Radio Network on TwitterPlease visit our sponsors, who make all this possible Kentucky Performance Products

We are talking to US Equestrian Managing Director, Laura Roberts, for updates on North American Youth Championships happening next week in Michigan. Then, Karen Isberg tells us about the importance of supplementing electrolights during the hot summer months. And, we are also talking history of the NAYCH with George and Roberta Williams. Listen in...GUESTS AND LINKS DRESSAGE EPISODE 723:Co-Hosts: Reese Koffler-Stanfield and Philip ParkesGuest: Laura RobertsGuest: Karen IsbergGuest: George Williams and Roberta WilliamsHRN Merchandise! Find a complete line of screen printed stuff…. and The embroidered merchandise at…Follow Dressage Radio Show on Facebook, and follow Horse Radio Network on TwitterPlease visit our sponsors, who make all this possible Kentucky Performance Products

Roberta Williams a bouleversé les codes de la programmation dans les années 1980 ! Une véritable geek, elle a évolué dans un milieu essentiellement masculin à l'époque. Depuis la table branlante de sa cuisine, elle a imaginé le premier jeu d'aventure avec des illustrations graphiques. Le tout premier jeu vidéo ! Cette invention de génie lui a permis de co-fonder une société valant aujourd'hui plus de 700 millions de dollars. On la surnomme la "Reine de l'aventure graphique", et c'est bien mérité ! Dans cet épisode, découvrez son histoire et ses incroyables découvertes. Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

In this episode of the MADEcast we rebroadcast one of our favorite conversations from 2021 with Roberta Williams, one of the early pioneers of adventure games. I (Jedd) have been off for a few weeks due to personal obligations, but we'll be back in a couple weeks with a new episode!

In Part 2, Roberta Williams goes in depth family, how she met Carl Williams and who she thinks was behind his murder. Thanks to our season sponsor MyPayNow, click below to find out more:  www.mypaynow.com.au  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Roberta Williams is the widow of one of Australia's notorios crime bosses, Carl Williams. In part 1 we find out the origin story of the woman behind the man. We know where her story is now but how did Robera's story begin? Roberta's story gets Neil to be open about his origin story as well. Thanks to our season sponsor MyPayNow, click below to find out more: www.mypaynow.com.auSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Iniciamos semana con la noticias Tech de actualidad, South Park usa ChatGPT para escribir el guión de su más episodio sobre inteligencia artificial, tambien la historia de Roberta Williams una mujer pionera en la industria de los videojuegos, el déficit en el área Tech genera mayores oportunidades de participación de las mujeres en Colombia y los semiconductores están a punto de cambiar la política agraria en el estado de OREGON en USA, además la música de Soda Stereo y Kali Uchis.

On Game Developer Podcast episode 30 we have KEN AND ROBERTA WILLIAMS, cofounders of SIERRA ON-LINE and the legendary minds behind games like KING'S QUEST and MYSTERY HOUSE, discussing their RETURN TO GAME DEVELOPMENT after 25 years and their recent REVIVAL OF A TEXT-BASED CLASSIC.

This month Rose makes kinda sorta debut as she and Seoirse review Pentiment, the only game Microsoft released in 2022! But first Tomas joins the team to see if Keoken Studios can deliver us The Moon. And finally, also making her debut, Amy aka SummerB, the beta tester extraordinaire who ha helped many adventure game developers with their adventure games goes down a Colossal Cave. Was this game worth the 30 year wait for the return of Ken and Roberta Williams. Find out in this episode! Games ReviewedDeliver Us The Moon Official SitePentiment Official SiteColossal Cave Official SiteThis episode was edited by Jared Parisis. You can check out his podcast where he interviews indie developers at Indie Games International below and wherever you listen to podcasts!Indie Games International Apple PodcastsLinks to Jared Parisis's interview with Deliver Us The Moon anywhere you listen to podcasts and below:SpotifyAppleAudibleGoogleIf you would like to stay up to date make sure you subscribe to the podcast. You can subscribe and listen to this podcast on Itunes and Spotify and all other major Podcast Platforms! You can also subscribe to our Youtube channel for extra video content such as video reviews, video interviews, trailers and gameplay.You can also support the podcast at our PatreonYou can review this podcast here: https://ratethispodcast.com/adventuregamespodcast You can also find this podcast on our social media below:Facebook Twitter Instagram DiscordYou can also find the RSS feed here: http://www.adventuregamespodcast.com/podcast?format=rssLogo created by Siobhan. You can find her on Twitter and Instagram Music is Speedy Delta (ID 917) by Lobo Loco and can be found here:http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Lobo_Loco/Welcome/Speedy_Delta_ID_917_1724

In this very special interview Seoirse is joined by none other than the legendary Roberta Williams! Roberta was kind enough to spend 90 minutes with Seoirse as she spoke about exactly how the project started, how she got involved, why they chose VR, what challenges they faced with VR and what the future may hold for both Roberta and Ken Williams. She also spoke about some of the reception the game got and what her definition of an adventure game is. So please enjoy this very special interview with one of the industry greats!Colossal Cave Official WebsiteCygnus Official SiteAdventure Games Podcast Official SiteIf you would like to stay up to date make sure you subscribe to the podcast. You can subscribe and listen to this podcast on Itunes and Spotify and all other major Podcast Platforms! You can also subscribe to our Youtube channel for extra video content such as video reviews, video interviews, trailers and gameplay.You can also support the podcast at our PatreonYou can review this podcast here: https://ratethispodcast.com/adventuregamespodcast You can also find this podcast on our social media below:Facebook Twitter Instagram DiscordYou can also find the RSS feed here: http://www.adventuregamespodcast.com/podcast?format=rssLogo created by Siobhan. You can find her on Twitter and Instagram Music is Speedy Delta (ID 917) by Lobo Loco and can be found here:http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Lobo_Loco/Welcome/Speedy_Delta_ID_917_1724

It's The State of Gaming Podcast, Popzara's in-depth look at what's shaking up the gaming landscape delivered on a monthly basis. Our hosts Cory Galliher and Nate Evans guide you through the best, worst, and everything else making headlines and headway in the world of interactive entertainment. The new year gets off with a bang! The biggest games of the month include: Fire Emblem Engage, Forspoken, Dead Space, One Piece Odyssey, A Space for the Unbound, Persona 4 Golden + Persona 3 Portable, Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider, Colossal Cave (welcome back Ken and Roberta Williams!), fresh new Xbox ports of Monster Hunter Rise and Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition, and more. A little self-promotion! Don't forget Popzara's State of Gaming year-end spectacular on the best, worst, and everything else we loved (and loathed) in the world of gaming for 2022, with returning champ Antal Bokar (from 3rd Coast Review and Culture Combine).

Welcome to Dev Game Club, where this week we begin a new series on 1980's seminal and genre-naming title, Rogue. We set the game in time and talk about what constitutes the genre before diving into some particulars. Dev Game Club looks at classic video games and plays through them over several episodes, providing commentary. Sections played: A few runs Issues covered: buying the game in a box, being disappointed in the ASCII, being turned off by procedural games, the differences in later games, the lore of the game, playing on a mainframe, the roots of so many games in text format, a top 50 achievement in games, the elements of the Rogue-like, procedural generation, inventory, randomized items, permadeath, getting over the hurdles in types of games, a chain reaction of bad things, clicking with a specific experience, simulating the rogue-like, a long shadow, playing to get a feel, being terrified of letters, trying things at random, a voyage of discovery, knowledge, renaming everything, consistent descriptions, thinking about strategy, the cumbersome bow mechanics, more depth than expected, the possibilities of emergence, anecdote factory, "wait, there are bear traps?" Games, people, and influences mentioned or discussed: Adventure, Atari 2600, Colossal Cave Adventure, Dungeons & Dragons, Egghead Software, Moria, Nethack, Jamie Fristrom, ADOM, Angband, Zork, Infocom, Mystery House, On-Line Systems, Sierra Online, Ken and Roberta Williams, Hunt the Wumpus, Star Trek, Pac-Man, Battlezone, Missile Command, Space Invaders, Activision, Taito, LucasArts, Space Quest/King's Quest, Michael Toy, Glenn Wichman, Ken Arnold, DARPANET, World of Warcraft, Mario (series), Dark Souls, Rogue Legacy, Epyx, Spelunky, Oblivion, Morrowind, PSP/Vita, Andy Nealen, Diablo, Calamity Nolan, Dead Cells, Eggplant (podcast), mysterydip, Clint Hocking, Patrick Redding, Mark Garcia, Artimage, LostLevels, Kirk Hamilton, Aaron Evers.  Next time: Get that Amulet of Yendor! Twitch: brettdouville or timlongojr, instagram:timlongojr, Twitter: @timlongojr and @devgameclub Discord: https://t.co/YVZOe7ZygI DevGameClub@gmail.com

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In this week's replay of a most special 'fellow takeover episode', Dr. Sarah Pradhan, sometime co-host of Pediheart and interventional cardiology fellow at Toronto Sick Children's Hospital, speaks with Professor Roberta Williams of USC about her long and illustrious career as a pioneer in both echocardiography as well as pediatric cardiac critical care. Prepare for a lot of wisdom about career and life from this giant in the fields of pediatric cardiology and pediatrics.

Episode 2019: Our featured article of the day is Roberta Williams.

This episode we are chatting with Marcus Maximus Mera about the upcoming game, Colossal Cave! Marcus shares his background and walks us through the story of how the game came to be, including how Ken and Roberta Williams came out of retirement to create it! Check out the Colossal Cave website for links to all of their socials and to wishlist the game on all platforms! Watch the live video version of the episode here!   Contact us, grab some merch and more! https://linktr.ee/vrverdictpodcast Shout out to our musical genius: One Eye Wanders https://www.facebook.com/One-Eye-Wanders-160518108944/   Check out the wonder behind most of our artwork: Jonathan Grim Art https://jonathangrimmart.com/   Feel free to toss a coin our way!  https://streamlabs.com/vrverdict

This week we speak with noted cardiovascular surgeon Dr. John J. Lamberti who is presently Associate Professor of Surgery at Stanford University. Dr. Lamberti's career has spanned from the time of Dr. Robert Gross in the 1960's to present day with Dr. Frank Hanley and the team in Stanford. His career perfectly mirrors the transition from the 'old days' of cardiac surgery up until the present modern age and he shares his reminiscences of working with Dr. Robert Gross, Dr. Aldo Castaneda, Dr. Maurice Lev, Dr. Roberta Williams, Dr. Nadas and others. He also shares his thoughts on how to be a good mentor and what that takes from someone who has mentored many surgeons in the past 5 decades.

Episode 135 feat. Adam, SMac and Taylor. Come send it with the boys, as we discuss, The mighty Bloods, Serena, Leo DiCaprio, Jacked comedians, Louis CK, Cranking, Pulling out, Not getting away with murder, Dusty Martin's hands, Roberta Williams, Hasbulla, The kinky carjacking, Yoga instructors, Tom Brady sunning his butthole, and much more... Please forward all complaints to: bigsendbigchat@gmail.com

Find out more about supporting Eurogmer here: https://www.eurogamer.net/subscribe   I was hoping they'd be on their boat while conducting the interview and they were! Bobbing along. They're super-keen boaters you see - well, not so much boaters as adventurers, which is absolutely appropriate and you'll know why when I eventually get around to telling you who they are. They've sailed across the Atlantic ocean on their own! They've sailed across the Bering Sea up near Alaska, though they took an experienced navigator to help them there.    In fact, if it weren't for the Covid-19 pandemic and the lockdown that came with it, they'd probably still be boating and wouldn't have returned to games at all. But being landlocked meant they got bored and so decided, eventually, to make a game again.   That, in and of itself, is a remarkable thing, because when these two people left games in the late 90s, they completely left. They didn't so much as look at a game in the two decades that followed. They didn't play a game, didn't keep up to date with the industry - nothing.   That's doubly-remarkable when you consider who they are: Ken and Roberta Williams, founders of the original mega-publisher and game-maker Sierra On-Line. They were responsible for so many games through the 80s and 90s, not least the King's Quest series that would enshrine Roberta Williams as a game-design legend - see what I mean about adventuring being very on-trend?    To go from that - 1000 people working for you and being the biggest business around - to nothing, well, it blows my mind. But then, they are a refreshingly unconventional pair, as I discover for myself here. It's part of the reason why their new game - a remake of Colossal Cave, the game that started it all for them - intrigues me so much, because they'll do it their way, whether we end up liking that or not. And have they still got what it takes to make a great game? I don't know! That's what's so exciting; it'll be nothing less than unique.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Designer and Sierra On-Line co-founder Roberta Williams shares how Adventure inspired her own career in creating/designing the King's Quest and Phantasmagoria series as well as her newest work: Colossal Cave 3D Adventure, a reimagined version of the original title.In this episode we're joined by a very vocal special guest, avid readers become avid storytellers, we're all acutely aware of our own age, and looking under the hood bears greater appreciation for design. See more from Roberta Williams: Twitter: @thecolossalcave Website: colossalcave3d.com Video Game History Foundation: Podcast Twitter: @gamehistoryhour Email: podcast@gamehistory.org Twitter: @GameHistoryOrg Website: gamehistory.org Support us on Patreon: /gamehistoryorg

In this episode of Adventure Game Hotspot, WGA and AGG interviews Marcus Maximus Mera from Cygnus Entertainment. They get the scoop on what's going on behind the scenes with the making of Colossal Cave Reimagined by Roberta Williams. They get a first look at one of the characters in the game. Stay to the end because the guys get silly. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/weirdgamingadventure/support

Imagine a game that begins with a printout that reads: You are standing at the end of a road before a small brick building. Around you is a forest. A small stream flows out of the building and down a gully. In the distance there is a tall gleaming white tower. Now imagine typing some information into a teletype and then reading the next printout. And then another. A trail of paper lists your every move. This is interactive gaming in the 1970s. Later versions had a monitor so a screen could just show a cursor and the player needed to know what to type. Type N and hit enter and the player travels north. “Search” doesn't work but “look” does. “Take water” works as does “Drink water” but it takes hours to find dwarves and dragons and figure out how to battle or escape. This is one of the earliest games we played and it was marvelous. The game was called Colossal Cave Adventure and it was one of the first conversational adventure games. Many came after it in the 70s and 80s, in an era before good graphics were feasible. But the imagination was strong.  The Oregon Trail was written before it, in 1971 and Trek73 came in 1973, both written for HP minicomputers. Dungeon was written in 1975 for a PDP-10. The author, Don Daglow, went on the work on games like Utopia and Neverwinter Nights Another game called Dungeon showed up in 1975 as well, on the PLATO network at the University of Illinois Champagne-Urbana. As the computer monitor spread, so spread games. William Crowther got his degree in physics at MIT and then went to work at Bolt Baranek and Newman during the early days of the ARPANET. He was on the IMP team, or the people who developed the Interface Message Processor, the first nodes of the packet switching ARPANET, the ancestor of the Internet. They were long hours, but when he wasn't working, he and his wife Pat explored caves. She was a programmer as well. Or he played the new Dungeons & Dragons game that was popular with other programmers. The two got divorced in 1975 and like many suddenly single fathers he searched for something for his daughters to do when they were at the house. Crowther combined exploring caves, Dungeons & Dragons, and FORTRAN to get Colossal Cave Adventure, often just called Adventure. And since he worked on the ARPANET, the game found its way out onto the growing computer network. Crowther moved to Palo Alto and went to work for Xerox PARC in 1976 before going back to BBN and eventually retiring from Cisco. Crowther loosely based the game mechanics on the ELIZA natural language processing work done by Joseph Weizenbaum at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in the 1960s. That had been a project to show how computers could be shown to understand text provided to computers. It was most notably used in tests to have a computer provide therapy sessions. And writing software for the kids or gaming can be therapeutic as well. As can replaying happier times.  Crowther explored Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky in the early 1970s. The characters in the game follow along his notes about the caves, exploring the area around it using natural language while the computer looked for commands in what was entered. It took about 700 lines to do the original Fortran code for the PDP-10 he had at his disposal at BBN. When he was done he went off on vacation, and the game spread. Programmers in that era just shared code. Source needed to be recompiled for different computers, so they had to. Another programmer was Don Woods, who also used a PDP-10. He went to Princeton in the 1970s and was working at the Stanford AI Lab, or SAIL, at the time. He came across the game and asked Crowther if it would be OK to add a few features and did. His version got distributed through DECUS, or the Digital Equipment Computer Users Society. A lot of people went there for software at the time. The game was up to 3,000 lines of code when it left Woods. The adventurer could now enter the mysterious cave in search of the hidden treasures. The concept of the computer as a narrator began with Collosal Cave Adventure and is now widely used. Although we now have vast scenery rendered and can point and click where we want to go so don't need to type commands as often. The interpreter looked for commands like “move”, “interact” with other characters, “get” items for the inventory, etc. Woods went further and added more words and the ability to interpret punctuation as well. He also added over a thousand lines of text used to identify and describe the 40 locations. Woods continued to update that game until the mid-1990s. James Gillogly of RAND ported the code to C so it would run on the newer Unix architecture in 1977  and it's still part of many a BSD distribution. Microsoft published a version of Adventure in 1979 that was distributed for the Apple II and TRS-80 and followed that up in 1981 with a version for Microsoft DOS or MS-DOS. Adventure was now a commercial product. Kevin Black wrote a version for IBM PCs. Peter Gerrard ported it to Amiga Bob Supnik rose to a Vice President at Digital Equipment, not because he ported the game, but it didn't hurt. And throughout the 1980s, the game spread to other devices as well. Peter Gerrard implemented the version for the Tandy 1000. The Original Adventure was a version that came out of Aventuras AD in Spain. They gave it one of the biggest updates of all. Colossal Cave Adventure was never forgotten, even though it was Zork was replaced. Zork came along in 1977 and Adventureland in 1979. Ken and Roberta Williams played the game in 1979. Ken had bounced around the computer industry for awhile and had a teletype terminal at home when he came across Colossal Cave Adventure in 1979. The two became transfixed and opened their own company to make the game they released the next year called Mystery House. And the text adventure genre moved to a new level when they sold 15,000 copies and it became the first hit. Rogue, and others followed, increasingly interactive, until fully immersive graphical games replaced the adventure genre in general. That process began when Warren Robinett of Atari created the 1980 game, Adventure.  Robinett saw Colossal Cave Adventure when he visited the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in 1977. He was inspired into a life of programming by a programming professor he had in college named Ken Thompson while he was on sabbatical from Bell Labs. That's where Thompason, with Dennis Ritchie and one of the most amazing teams of programmers ever assembled, gave the world Unix and the the C programming language at Bell Labs. Adventure game went on to sell over a million copies and the genre of fantasy action-adventure games moved from text to video.

Hey Rosies! This episode is classic Betty, nerd women who were trail blazers in male dominated industries. Viv has to describe an upsetting picture... that ya'll can see in Instagram if you're daring.If you're more of a visual person head on over to youtube for the video of this episode.Visit us on facebook.com/revolutionrosies, instagram @RevolutionRosies and on twitter @RevolutionRosys.Please email your art, your inspirational women and stories about amazing things you have done to revolutionrosies@gmail.comMusic written and performed by Vivienne Vega with her band Electro Cult CircusLogo by Amanda BraskettResearched and Produced by Vivienne Vega & Betty LeRouxRevolution Rosies is a member of the Loud Cat Podcast family.

In this episode of Adventure Game Hotspot Podcast the guys discuss the point and click adventure game industry significance of having the Williams back (Colossal Cave 3d), Ron Gilbert back in the Return to Monkey island Universe and the new Simon the Sorcerer Origins game announced. Stay to the end because Weird Gaming Adventure and Adventure Game Geek choose 5 adventure games that they would like to see re-imagined by Cygnus Entertainment (Ken and Roberta Williams). --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/weirdgamingadventure/support

We look back at the career of Roberta Williams, the Queen of Adventure Games, as part of our discussion on King's Quest, released for the IBM PCJr in May of 1984.  We'll look at how she got into game development and worked her way into the creation of King's Quest.  Its importance to gaming is talked about, as well as the legacy it left behind. Finally, we'll talk about what Roberta Williams recently announced on today's adventure filled trip down Memory Card Lane.

This week we're talking about Phantasmagoria with our good friend Michael Cardinal. Phantasmagoria is a point-and-click adventure horror game designed by Roberta Williams for MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows and released by Sierra On-Line on August 24, 1995. It tells the story of a writer who moves into a remote mansion and finds herself terrorized by supernatural forces. It was made at the peak of popularity for interactive movie games and features live actors and footage, both during cinematic scenes and within the three-dimensionally rendered environments of the game itself. About us: Press Any Button hosts Nicky (a new gamer) and Eric (a lifetime gamer) are a married couple who both love video games. For every video game they will discuss its past (history of the game, developers story, and fun facts), present (game play, game review and strategy), and future (will there be a sequel?? A movie?) BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE… Every game also comes with a challenge presented by the host that chose the game. If the challenge is not completed then whoever failed has to do a video game rap! So if you want to learn more about video games, hear some nerdy video game raps, or just have a good time this is the podcast for you. We try to cover all types of video games including: Retro and New video games Playstation, Nintendo, Xbox, Sega, and PC games Any and all genres including RPG, Simulation, Beat em up, platforming, mystery, first person shooter, sandbox, puzzle, action adventure, etc. Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pressanybutton_podcast/ Credits: Nicky Smith Eric Luedtke Michael Cardinal Music by Mark Spurlock and Michael Cardinal References: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Entertainment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberta_Williams https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantasmagoria_(video_game) https://www.nme.com/news/gaming-news/sierra-made-phantasmagoria-after-being-turned-down-by-stephen-king-3190589 https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/04/roberta-and-ken-williams-open-up-about-their-first-video-game-in-25-years/

Roberta was barely interested in Ken's computer coding. But after playing the text-based game "Adventure" she started to wonder if there was more to these machines. Soon, the couple was running Sierra On-Line, and they brought us the dragon-slaying, wizard-dueling, skeleton-xylophoning adventure series that changed gaming forever: King's Quest! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's time for another visit with Stewart Cheifet and the Computer Chronicles. This time we're heading back to 1995 for a computer games special that includes Microsoft's ill-fated DirectX event Judgment Day, a very silly Bill Gates promo video, demos of MechWarrior 2 and Phantasmagoria (with Roberta Williams!), a random PlayStation-versus-Saturn head to head from Stewart, and more.SHOW NOTESThe relevant Computer Chronicles episode, season 13 episode 8:https://archive.org/details/CC1308_greatest_gamesBill Gates invades Doom:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2V9TFrmQ_QThe letter from Alex St. John's daughter:https://www.wired.com/2016/04/alex-st-johns-daughter-wrong-women-tech/Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod

After 25 years, Ken and Roberta Williams, the founders of Sierra Entertainment and inventors of the graphical adventure game genre, are back with a new game. How will their game development philosophy hold up in the modern era of gaming? Also: Vampire Survivors, reacting to the Max Payne remake announcement, the perils of digital and online-only gaming stores, and much more! #gamingnews #videogamenews Augmented Reality is a video game news & opinion podcast with a focus on deep industry analysis. In each episode, we take a critical and humorous look at the latest in gaming news, technology and nerd culture. Listen LIVE and join the live chat on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyWa45UKIdxa48QCF_52yIA YouTube series archive ► https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWeLPf-EcaKBub3PnWB1dvuAMlXqU2YUc Check out our book, Best of Classic Card Games! ► https://amzn.to/3Czza9P Online Communities: • Guilded ► https://www.guilded.gg/the-triple-s-league • Discord ► https://discord.gg/WDQJTJw Support: • Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/TheTripleSLeague • Channel membership ► https://www.youtube.com/thetriplesleague/join • Merch ► https://teespring.com/stores/thetriplesleague ==== OTHER CHANNELS ==== GAME GUIDES, WALKTHROUGS, REVIEWS & COMEDY on The Triple S League ► https://www.youtube.com/thetriplesleague EPIC MUSIC for gaming/studying on Triple S Radio ► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8YTY05Uv8RTjWdbpKghHAg ==== MUSIC CREDITS ==== Podcast theme: Hellcat (NCS Release - https://youtu.be/JSY6vBPunpY ) by Desmeon (http://www.youtube.com/iamdesmeon) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/augmented-reality-podcast/message

King's Quest is a graphic adventure game series, released between 1980 and 2016 and created by the American software company Sierra Entertainment. It is widely considered a classic series from the golden era of adventure games. Following the success of its first installments, the series was primarily responsible for building the reputation of Sierra. Roberta Williams, co-founder and former co-owner of Sierra, designed all of the King's Quest games until the series' reboot in 2015.

As well as mentioning Adventure X returning plus Ken and Roberta Williams' new game and release dates from the likes of Crowns and Pawns and Chinatown Detective Agency, the team also fits some reviews in too! Seoirse reviews two games - The Whisperer and Dexter Stardust : Adventures in Outer Space, whilst Laura takes a look at dark David Lynch-esque reverse detective game Who's Lila?.

We chat to ZX Spectrum and Game Boy legend Jas Austin, who brought classics like Terminator 2, R-Type, Altered Beast and Rex to the 8-bit systems. Jas Austin Twitter: https://twitter.com/IamXERO Please visit our amazing sponsors and help to support the show: Bitmap Books https://www.bitmapbooks.co.uk/ Check out PCBWay at pcbway.com for all your PCB needs We need your help to ensure the future of the podcast, if you'd like to help us with running costs, equipment and hosting, please consider supporting us on Patreon: https://theretrohour.com/support/ https://www.patreon.com/retrohour Thanks so much to our latest supporters, in the Hall of Fame this week: Matthew Moebes, Bengt Siiri,  Carey Clanton, Timothy, Darren Coles Get your Retro Hour merchandise: https://bit.ly/33OWBKd Join our Discord channel: https://discord.gg/GQw8qp8 Website: http://theretrohour.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theretrohour/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/retrohouruk Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/retrohouruk/ Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/theretrohour Show notes:  16-bit style wrestling RPG: https://bit.ly/3K90qPH A500 Mini: https://bit.ly/3uC67Py New Sega Game Gear gear: https://bit.ly/3tS6B4K Ken & Roberta Williams new game: https://www.colossalcave3d.com/

Com Ghost mais uma vez ausente, Caio Teixeira se junta a nós para falarmos da reportagem da People Make Games e das revelações de assédio moral na Funomena. Também falamos do retorno de Roberta e Ken Williams ao mundo dos jogos, a confirmação de um novo Witcher e mais. Participantes: Caio Teixeira Heitor De Paola Assuntos abordados: 10:00 - A reportagem da People Make Games de estúdios indie tóxicos 40:00 - Ken e Roberta Willians estão trabalhando em uma releitura de Colossal Cave 3D Adventure 44:00 - CD Projekt confirma desenvolvimento de um novo Witcher 51:00 - Rápidas e curtas Venha fazer parte do Discord do Overloadr! Tem perguntas que quer que sejam lidas no programa ou sugestões? Envie-as para motherchip@overloadr.com.br. Apoie o Overloadr: https://www.overloadr.com.br/ajude See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Desde la sede Avellaneda de la Escuela del Oso Hormiguero de Witchers, les damos la bienvenida Café Fandango Ep391. Esta semana Seba nos cuenta sobre Police Stories, Kingdom Two Crowns, The Pedestrian y un poquitín de Trials of the Blood Dragon y Richy's Nightmare, mientras que Edu anuncia su nueva campaña de Football Manager, y nos cuenta sus primeras impresiones de Lost In Random y sus renovadas impresiones de Syberia. Con un solo lanzamiento, pasamos rápidamente a contarte sobre la nueva adquisición de Sony, el anuncio de un nuevo Witcher, cómo Ken y Roberta Williams se acordaron que les gustaba hacer juegos, el sorpresivo nuevo juego de Ghostbusters, el atraso del juego de Suicide Squad y cerramos con Godfall y su parche que incluye todo lo que alguna vez quisimos. Cerramos con la Pregunta Fandango donde nos enfocamos en esos detallitos que le cambiarías a tu juegos favoritos.

One of my favourite actors – a performer who can do comedy and drama, stage and screen, and that’s Kat Stewart. Kat got a degree in marketing and arts before attending the National Theatre drama school at night while working as a publicist during the day.After graduating, she started making guest appearances on The Secret Life of Us, Stingers and Blue Heelers before landing her first leading role on BBC’s Supernova opposite Rob Brydon.After that, came her award-winning turn as Roberta Williams in Underbelly – followed by Newstopia, Tangle, Offspring, Mr and Mrs Murder and now Five Bedrooms.We discuss most of those shows in this interview and a few more.But before getting to the questions, we talked about our childhoods and Kat happened to mention she went to school with Portia De Rossi. SocialsTwitter - Adam ZwarFacebook - Adam Zwar 10 Questions with Adam Zwar is produced in part by Nearly Media. Looking for another podcast between episodes of 10 Questions?The Junkees with Dave O'Neil and Kitty FlanaganSomehow Related with Glenn Robbins and Dave O'NeilMore about Out of the Question: https://www.nearly.com.au/out-of-the-question-with-adam-zwar/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit adamzwar.substack.com

Are you ready for an entire episode devoted to adoring Kat Stewart? If your answer is, who the hell is Kat Stewart...then HOW VERY DARE YOU, but also please allow us to educate you on her brilliance. Fun fact, she's the Emsolation podcasts number one ticket holder, okay so we don't actually have any tickets, (aside from the ones we have on ourselves, naturally) but what we mean is she's officially our biggest fan and has been since Emsolation first started. She holds that position because she is a dear friend of both Em and Michael and she's also been in almost ALL of our living rooms at one stage in our lives. You see Kat is famous for playing people like Roberta Williams in the TV Series Underbelly, and Nat Manning in Tangle, plus there's her role as Billie Proudman in Offspring (a role written by Michael Lucas and actually based on our fabulous leader Em Rusciano) and lets not forget her current role as Liz Wendell in Five Bedrooms. Look, I could sit here and type up her entire IMDB profile if you want, but that's hardly going to be as entertaining as this chat. To properly set the scene before you listen, please know that Em and Michael had both been having a teensy beverage, so they are feeling loose, also it was late at night, plus Em had no technical wizards to help her set up her recording devices, so there are a few hiccups within this episode. To begin we start with a very special introduction that Em hasn't even heard, she actually won't get to hear the introduction until she listens to the show once it's gone live on Spotify, you'll understand more once you plug yourself in and have a listen. Also it should be flagged that the hateful warlock of technical difficulties strikes again, this time he actually refused to record Em's vocals. So you'll get a great and hilarious chat for about 30 minutes, then you'll get selected highlights of the rest of the chat that feature recorded introductions from Em and then Kat and Michael's replies. In all honesty, the tequila when mixed with Em's competitive nature, plus the fact that Michael did actual research for once, means he was in for a whole heap of mockery throughout, so we took the actual funniest parts of the lost conversation and present them to you in bite size perfection. They include two wonderful pieces of Kat Stewart trivia from Michael, who loves to reveal uncomfortable secrets at the drop of a hat, plus there's a bunch of info on the forthcoming season of Five Bedrooms and also some proof that Kat is a huge fan of this podcast as well. Honestly, the stuff that was lost probably should stay lost, so we are seeing it as a blessing, but Em will be making a sacrifice of some sort to ensure that we manage to move forward without any technical hiccups in future episodes. So settle in for three mates having a huge gasbag about their friendship, a revisit with Kat's work as Roberta Williams in Underbelly, including a return of that character to our podcast mic, there's also a heap of Offspring talk, including the return of the fact that Michael is responsible for killing off Patrick, and how much info Michael stole from Em's actual life, to slip into the script. Plus there's soooo much more audio goodness that you didn't know you needed in your ears, until you actually hear it, so hurry up and get amongst it now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Video games are a staple to our modern culture. We certainly have many people to be thankful for that, but there's one person in particular who we want to celebrate today, and that is game designer Roberta Williams. Theme music is by Daryl Banner: https://darylbanner.bandcamp.com/ Become a member on the Cultured, But… Not Really Patreon page to get access to ad-free versions of this podcast: https://patreon.com/reallycultured Sign up for Run the Town! | Alexandrian Media Teespring --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/reallycultured/message

This week Alex chats with the amazing illustrious Roberta Williams, video game designer, writer and co-founder of Sierra On-line. Roberta gives us a first hand account of what it was like designing the first ever adventure games, a legacy that is still carried on in our video games to this very day!

Episode 23 of The Blank Canvas with Kat Stewart. Making a career in the performing arts is notoriously challenging but in this case the cream has certainly risen to the top. Kat Stewart's searing performance as Roberta Williams in the iconic first TV series of UNDERBELLY, planted her into our collective consciousness. Kat received both the 2008 AFI Award for Best Lead Actress and the 2009 Logie Award for Most Outstanding Actress. Whether comedy, drama or anything in between, the incredible performances and accolades have followed ever since, however Kat is probably best known for her AACTA Award winning portrayal of Billie Proudman in the TV phenomenon - Offspring. Aside from being a lovely human and charming conversationalist, this is an inspiring career change story; Kat completed a degree in marketing and arts and was working as full time publicist for publisher Penguin Books. Unable to shake the acting bug from some university theatre she dabbled in, she studied acting at night after work for 3 years, eventually getting her confidence up to taking the plunge into that arena. "There are some people that have just driven by an innate self-belief, I'm driven by a lot of self doubt, but it means that I work really hard because I do think that I can fail at any second. You know, every time I take on a job, I think, oh shit. I don't know if I can pull this off. Every character you starting from ground zero, but in a way that's the greatest thing, the fear and the trepidation is a respect for the task at hand.” Kat’s latest hit TV series is FIVE BEDROOMS which is produced by Hoodlum. Series Two is returning to Network 10 in 2021. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1830811/ https://www.instagram.com/kat_stewy/ W: https://theblankcanvaspodcast.com.au/ W: https://leerogers.com.au/ SOCIALS Insta: @theblankcanvaspodcast FB - The Blank Canvas Podcast Twitter: @blankcanvaspod THE BLANK CANVAS TEAM Produced by Lee Rogers & Rien MacDonald. Audio support by Jason Murphy/GASinc Music by Rodrigo Enrique Bustos.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sierra Games is heralded as one of the premiere adventure game developers and publishers that existed. Deep care went into the development of the games they created, thanks to a husband and wife creative partnership between Ken and Roberta Williams. Together, they formed Sierra Games, a developer and publisher which created some of the most memorable adventure games ever made. But what about the soundtracks to these sprawling titles? Today on XVGM Radio, Justin and Mike are joined by fellow podcaster and long time personal friend, Brian Siecienski,who is part of the Pixel Stories Podcast. Together, these three share personal stories about their nostalgic experiences with Sierra Games and the soundtracks from the past, all while covering a good chunk of Sierra Games' legacy.