Word: crawford
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More important, software companies feared that games written for business computers would not sell. "The general thinking was that the average player was a 17-year-old geek with pimples who wanted to blow up spaceships," says Chris Crawford, a former game designer at Atari who now writes programs independently for both business and home computers. "Publishers are just beginning to realize there is another market out there...
...exploit that market, software houses are busy developing adult-oriented games that are more sophisticated than Pac-Man and Donkey Kong and can be played as easily on a keyboard as with a joy stick. Programmer Crawford's current best seller, for example, is Mindscape's Balance of Power ($49.95), a foreign policy simulation in which the player tries to check Soviet expansion in as many as 62 different countries without starting a nuclear war. In Starflight by Electronic Arts ($49.95), players explore some 270 star systems and 800 simulated planets, zapping aliens all the way. Infocom has even come...
...Whitney completed her extended family when she met the "sister I never had." Robyn Crawford -- tall, slim, severely handsome -- was 19 then; they have been nearly inseparable ever since. Four years ago Robyn dropped out of Monmouth College, where she had played basketball on scholarship, and later became Whitney's personal assistant. They share a North Jersey flat with a view of Manhattan. Because of their easy intimacy, the tattle mill has ground out the story that they are lovers. Both women shrug off the rumor. Says Robyn: "I tell my family, 'You can hear anything on the streets...
...haven't had much time to work on my home run trot," he remarked. Surhoff's homer to center off reliever Steve Crawford allowed the Brewers to complete a three-game sweep of their opening series with the defending American League champions...
...sixth, Gantner singled home Bill Schroeder, who had doubled off Red Sox reliever Steve Crawford. Molitor's two-out double made...