Fear and Coding

f you are not aware of , which ran from 1974 to 1985, and in the January 1982 issue, you’ll find Adventures In Videoland, which chronicles David’s efforts to write , an Apple II adventure game which interfaced with a Philips LaserDisc player to provide cutscenes. This was a full year before announced the groundbreaking technology to the world, meaning David has a legitimate claim to coding the first LaserDisc title. “I appreciate that but it was just a coding task handed to me by my boss,” he says, modestly. “I wrote the article in the style of Hunter S Thompson because I really wanted to be like him or James Joyce. My liver couldn’t handle either.”