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drunkgamers has an interview with Carly Staehlin-Taylor about NC Softs upcoming MMORPG Tabula Rasa. The first part of the interview doesn't reveal too much about the game, but more about Carly. Well worth a look...
FRANK: Were you interested in video games growing up? If so, what games in particular?
CARLY: It started when I was about 12. We didn't have a computer at my house but my mom started dating this guy named Frank, who had a computer. It was very exciting for me because I was kind of a braniac kid myself and always looking for the latest and greatest. He still had kind of a crappy computer and he didn't buy any software. He would just pirate stuff from people at work and the first game he had me play was Leisure Suit Larry and the Land of the Lounge Lizards. That was a lot of fun. I liked Choose Your Own Adventure Books when I was really little and they reminded me of a Choose Your Own Adventure and so I was down with it. I played that and played a bunch of other games.
I loved arcades when I was growing up. I spent a lot of time playing Pole Position, Tron, and stuff like that. Frank actually bought a game for me which was an Infocom game called Bureaucracy, which was also an adventure/role-playing game kind of thing. And oh my gosh, loved it. I loved it so much. I really got a kick out of this game because the box included some additional materials like a couple of fake magazines and a super passcode thing and a bunch of stuff inside the box. And over the course of playing the game, you have to keep looking back over the stuff to see if there's a hint about how to solve a puzzle in the game by looking at your magazines. For instance, in the game, there is a mansion and this paranoid guy lives in the house and one of the magazines in the box is Paranoia Today. You read in it and you read some things that teach you how to talk the guy in the house to give you information or let you into the house. I just loved the fact that they were using this real life stuff to make the game work. Played a bunch of arcade games done for the PC. I had an Intellivision. The only game I can remember for the Intellivision was the skiing game. I really loved the skiing game. Later, I didn't have my own console until 1997 when I had a Playstation...maybe even 98. It was when Abe's Oddysee came out. That game made me get a console. I played a really great old game when I was in college called Fantasy Empires which is a multiplayer game. It's not an online game but four people play at the same time with the same computer, kind of a turn-based Take-Over-The-Empire kind of a game. That was a lot of fun because you could send private messages to other players. You'd type a message and they would get it when it was their turn. You'd get off the computer and go sit on the bed (this was in the dorm rooms) and people would have the t.v. on, and of course we would be drinking: Popov vodka and Ruby Red Squirt, yum, and uh we'd mix it in the mouth because we didn't actually have containers for mixing. So you take a swig of Ruby Red, take a swig of vodka, swirl it and swallow. That was the deal. So we played Fantasy Empires and drank Ruby Red Squirt and Popov vodka. We'd sit on the bed and wait for the other person to get the message. We'd always write ridiculous messages and wait for them to laugh. |
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Interview With Carly Staehlin-Taylor
