Doesn’t sound like much today, but it was huge for the couple and their nascent business. Download Phantasmagoria 1. Phantasmagoria (1995/ENG/MULTI10/RePack from GGHZ) » Downloads from OptikGames. It was more a hobby project than a commercial venture - but the game sold 10,000 copies on its first run, via mail order. That all sounds like a lot of technical input, and a lot of responsibility, for Roberta - who didn’t set out to pioneer a genre with Mystery House, but simply made the game she and Ken wanted to, as On-Line Systems’ debut. It was released for the Apple II computer - makes sense, given what hardware the pair had at home - and was the first-ever text adventure game to feature pictures of the environment or situation the player found themself in, each of them drawn by Roberta - from the outside of the building to each room and its occupants (living, or dead). One of the first games utilizing full-motion video technology so well. A thrilling storyline designed by a professional writer - Roberta Williams. The company’s first release was 1980’s Mystery House, a murder mystery set in a spooky mansion designed and written by Roberta with programming by Ken. Master storyteller Roberta Williams challenges you to experience the ultimate interactive nightmare. In 1979, Roberta and Ken founded On-Line Systems, a game development studio and publisher.

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