Submission + - A not so brief history of E A
ganjadude writes: "http://gamasutra.com/features/20070216/fleming_01. shtml
"In the summer of 1975 I learned about the invention of the microprocessor and about the first retail store where a consumer could rent a timesharing terminal to use from home," he remembered. "That very day I committed to found EA in 1982. I figured that it would take seven years for enough computing hardware to get into homes to create an audience for the computer games that I wanted to make."
This gets me thinking about how the other giants of the industry got their beginning."
"In the summer of 1975 I learned about the invention of the microprocessor and about the first retail store where a consumer could rent a timesharing terminal to use from home," he remembered. "That very day I committed to found EA in 1982. I figured that it would take seven years for enough computing hardware to get into homes to create an audience for the computer games that I wanted to make."
This gets me thinking about how the other giants of the industry got their beginning."
