Word: diablo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They are going to make 2 million of these little silicon discs--burn them, in the lingo--and then they will be richer. Their game, Diablo II, an Internet-based slasher romp, has been described by at least one game-industry magazine as the "most anticipated in history." Diablo, their first game, was among the best selling ever, moving a couple million CD-ROMs, making the game's co-creators, brothers Erich Schaefer, 34, and Max Schaefer, 32, multimillionaires. But what is striking about walking into the Blizzard North building in Menlo Park, Calif., is not the casualness...
...have somehow turned what used to be a clique of adolescent boys--our rabble of pimply, geeked-out teenagers in Pacific Palisades, Calif.--into a highly profitable, 100-employee, new-economy juggernaut that is currently the focal point of millions of young males eagerly awaiting the Christmas launch of Diablo...
...metaphorically stayed in front of that Apple II as Moore's law morphed it into a faster, better computer. Then came the Net. And after nearly a decade of wandering the techie wilderness, dabbling in desktop publishing and then gradually shifting into game design, the Schaefers struck gold with Diablo, the game that could be described as Quake meets Dungeons & Dragons. Then, in typical Silly Valley fashion, their company was bought out by a bigger company, which was bought by an even larger company. You know the rest...
Will the world end? Will El Diablo himself manifest in your Crimson Cash? The catch here, of course, is that no one can really know so all bets...
...McMillan, the most self-revelatory writer in the world--this week, anyway--she grouses that "nobody would dream of asking Toni Morrison who she is sleeping with." Later, her Jamaican friend Plummer, a slim, amiable fellow who studies hotel management at Diablo Valley College, pokes his head into her cluttered office. He admits that he is "flattered" to be the model for Stella's Winston Shakespeare, though "I don't really read books." "But he will," says McMillan, "or else he's moving." Laughter all around...