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Born in Evansville, Indiana
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Graduated high school a year early at age 16
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Married Roberta Williams, having been 18 for only 5 days
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Attended 9-month programming trade school, Control Data Institute, in Los Angeles
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Dropped out of college
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Founded On-Line Systems with wife
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Sierra On-Line's Chairman and CEO
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Programmed the first graphical adventure game: "Mystery House"
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Discovered "Softporn Adventure" at a trade show and released it for On-Line Systems
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Renamed company to Sierra On-Line
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Released first installment in popular King's Quest series
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Wrote Textbook: "Apple II Computer Graphics"
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Produced King's Quest 5: sold 500,000 copies and won Best Adventure Game of the Year
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Sold Sierra for $1.5 billion to CUC International
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Retired at age 44
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Started a dot-com called Talkspot, that does entertainment broadcasting
