Re: Danielle Berry's (M.U.L.E. & Ozark) First Game

[BLuRry <brendan.robert@gmail.com>]

On Thursday, January 31, 2013 8:52:58 AM UTC-6, Wayne A. Arthurton wrote:
> In this interview: http://www.dadgum.com/halcyon/BOOK/BERRY.HTM
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> Danielle says this about her first game:
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> "What's the story behind the publication of your first game in 1978?
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> My first game was a four player business management game with a real-time auction for the Apple II 16K cassette machine titled "Wheeler Dealers." The Apple didn't have a four player input device so I built some and included them with the game. I convinced my publisher--Speakeasy Software of Canada--to underwrite the construction of five-hundred of these, to put them in a printed box, and to sell them at $35 apiece when other games sold for $15 max and came in a Ziploc bag. We sold fifty copies. However, this game was the launching pad for my career and was successively replicated in "Cartels & Cutthroats" and "M.U.L.E.""
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> Has anyone seen this game?  or more preferable have some pictures of the controller?
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> I found a picture of the cover art here: http://ludix.com/moriarty/dani.html
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> Just an interesting footnote in Apple gaming that would be interesting to see.
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> Wayne

I didn't realize there were two Apple game programmers that went through gender reassignment.  Interesting!  Seems that even though she passed away in the late 90's, she is still credited with special thanks in recent titles like Spore.  Gone but not forgotten.

-B