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    Setting Sail

    Oct 01, 2020 3 minutes

    As soon as Ron Gilbert finished working on Maniac Mansion, he immediately started planning out his next big title. But, as the sales figures rolled in, he wondered why Sierra On-Line’s King’s Quest was outselling Maniac Mansion by so much. Perhaps, he thought, it was because King’s Quest was a fantasy title – fantasy was all the rage, after all. “The problem was: I didn’t like fantasy at all,” he tells us.

    “I really didn’t want to make a game about dragons and

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