[game_preservation] Gary Gygax passed away

[Captain Commando]

Wow. That's really sad and shocking. So far the only information that seems
available is that he was in poor health for awhile. Died at age 70. I never
met him, but one of my friends online said he accidentally (and randomly!)
called Gary Gygax's phone number. If there was ever someone influential to
both paper and digital games, Gygax would be him. His life really needs to
be celebrated.

-DM

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Andrew Armstrong <andrew at aarmstrong.org>
wrote:


>  News on Gary Gygax's death. I've only heard him really speak in Futurama

> (a great appearance I might add), but damn, he was a big game developer, and

> must have been a great guy.

>

> :-(

>

> News post on Slashdot<http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/04/1750206>.

> The forum (his publisher) which reported it is really overwhelmed, but this

> is the link.<http://www.freeyabb.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=4373&mforum=trolllordgames>

>

> And a quick note; I think this is most certainly someone who deserves a memorial

> page <http://www.igda.org/wiki/Memorials>. Once an obituary is published,

> I'll see if the person who does one wants to have it copied onto the IGDA

> site, unless anyone wants to do one on this mailing list we can post of

> course, the game developer angle would be a nice thing.

>

> Andrew

>

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