visiting State capitals, throughout the World visiting famous cities and capitals, visiting Indian reservations and learning their customs. A headhunter called me and asked if I wanted to work at home (part-time) programming games for book publishers who wanted adventure games for the Apple as a selling device ("buy 40 books and get a game that relates to the subject matter.") I did several games for Laidlaw a division of Doubleday where the student could travel throughout the U.S. In 1983, I moved back to NY City area looking for a job. In 1981 or so, I bought myself an Apple 2 and Pascal and wrote a few simple graphic games in 32K with 8 colors. Other students had 1-4K PCs that they assembled from Heathkit. Throughout college I studied AI, Game theory, Database theory and worked for a mini (Nova Computers) company and was given a TI Silent 700 (terminal paper terminal connected to the Novas) in my dorm room. The computer teacher was also a math teacher and taught computers through math solving so the principal asked me to teach real-world computing(searching, sorting, simulations, games like tic-tac-toe)
The interest in computers led me to teach the high school computer course. A man ( David Ahl editor of "Creative Computing" the nation's #1 PC magazine in the 1970s) in Westchester County (one county over) started having computer lectures and fairs once a month which I attended and prepared simulations and easy single player games for that run via a yellow paper terminal (no monitors back then). I was too young to take the classes (had to be in 10th grade) so I hung out in the computer room and taught myself BASIC. The high school hooked up to a Texas Instrument mini-computer and started a computer class. I also started to become an avid chess player (now ranked a Master). I designed several war games: "Global Conquest," "LunarCity," "The PentaLegions" and corresponded to other game designers like Gary Gygax (who developed D&D) and a fellow who had me game test "Conquest", a chess like 2-4 player game player on a board or through the mail. I became addicted to war games and started subscribing to "Strategy and Tactics" and Military magazines. In the 6th grade, we played Avalon Hill games and Diplomacy for history. What made you decide to work in the game industry in the first place? Roger can be reached at if you have further questions. His latest release was General Mills Major League Baseball, released 1998.
Roger Pedersen is an Executive Producer / Game Designer / Programmer with over 50 released titles! In 1996-97 he was the fulltime Executive Producer for Acclaim Entertainment.
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