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Dave Anderson
Bob Bates
Michael Berlyn
Marc Blank
Amy Briggs
Liz Cyr-Jones
Patricia Fogleman
Stu Galley
Jim Lawrence
David Lebling
Steve Meretzky
Brian Moriarty
Jeff O'Neill
Jerry Wolper
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Liz Cyr-Jones is credited with conjuring the original concept for Hollywood Hijinx. Raised in Hawaii on raw fish and seaweed, Liz joined the Infocom group as an official sushi tester, and she has a tank of tropical fish in her office for quick afternoon snacks. Liz lives in Beverly, Massachusetts, with her husband Bob, and a cat named Nelson, who Bob is teaching to fetch sticks - from the middle of the street. (Courtesy www.csd.uwo.ca/Infocom.) I think Infocom's success was due in large part to the personalities of everyone involved. It was very magical; we'd have very serious discussions of what grues actually looked like, and whether they really would eat an adventurer, and stuff like that. The work environment was very nonserious. What I mean is, though we took games seriously, it was possible to get a bunch of people together and play Boggle on the mainframe. Infocom nostalgia? I remember Marc interviewing some guy (can't for the life of me remember who it was) in his trademark aloha shirt and jeans, but he reclined on a chaise lounge, wore his sunglasses and sipped a frothy drink replete with umbrella and straw. In our heyday, we had a lot of perks-among them, free soda, bagels on Mondays...we also had a ping pong table in this huge room. This was '85...we used to play ping pong at times during the day. (Courtesy www.xyzzynews.com/xyzzy.10e.html.)
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