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Joel Billings Interview


If you ever played a computer strategy game on your home micro computer in the 80s or 90s, spending countless hours moving your troops around the battlefield, be it  Antietam, Vietnam, WWII or even the mythical land of Krynn, or one of the amazing Gold Box games, you have one man to think, Joel Billings, founder of SSI.

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References:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Simulations

https://www.mobygames.com/company/strategic-simulations-inc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avalon_Hill

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulations_Publications,_Inc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl_Corporation

https://www.mobygames.com/game/computer-bismarck

https://www.mobygames.com/game/computer-quarterback

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danielle_Bunten_Berry

https://archive.org/details/CreativeComputingbetterScan198004/page/n44/mode/1up  

https://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,2121/

louissaekowdesign.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trip_Hawkins

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSR,_Inc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Gold

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorraine_Williams

2by3games.com

https://store.steampowered.com/developer/Slitherine

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 May 22, 2020  2h36m