FIGURES FROM THE HISTORY OF TEXT ADVENTURES

A collection of people who have played some part, directly or indirectly, in the history of text adventures. Not meant to be exhaustive, although I've tried to get everyone you might expect to appear. Of course, there are a number of people who will be interviewed who aren't listed. (When they're interviewed, they'll show up in this list.) There's a condensed and expanded version of this page. Please mail in your corrections, additions, and suggestions.

Has been interviewed. Attempting to contact. Was contacted and responded. Not interested or unreachable.
CREATORS
ADVENTURE INTERNATIONAL
Alexis Adams Has been interviewed. Richard Adams Was contacted and responded. Scott Adams Has been interviewed.
Brian Howarth
COMMERCIAL
Robert Arnstein Greg Hassett Ron Krebs
Lance Micklus Has been interviewed. John R. Olsen, Jr.
HISTORICAL
Bob Supnik Has been interviewed. Don Woods Has been interviewed. JLAIRD
Patricia Crowther Attemping to contact. RPINKSY Will Crowther Attemping to contact.
Gregory Yob Not interested or unreachable.
INFOCOM
Dave Anderson Has been interviewed. Tim Anderson Bob Bates Has been interviewed.
Joel Berez Was contacted and responded. Brian Berkowitz Mike Berlyn Has been interviewed.
Marc Blank Has been interviewed. Amy Briggs Was contacted and responded. Liz Cyr-Jones
Bruce Daniels Mike Dornbrook Was contacted and responded. Stu Galley
Mike Hammer Richard Ilson Mitch Kapor
Jim Lawrence Not interested or unreachable. Dave Lebling (P. David Lebling) Has been interviewed. Jim Levy
Steve Meretzky Has been interviewed. Brian Moriarty Has been interviewed. Jeff O'Neill
Jon Palace Has been interviewed. John Romero Was contacted and responded. Tony Van
Al Vezza
LANGUAGES
Kent Tessman Michael J. Roberts Graham Nelson
MODERN
Adam Cadre Was contacted and responded. Andrew Plotkin Has been interviewed. Adam Thornton Was contacted and responded.
Emily Short Not interested or unreachable. Frank Fridd Has been interviewed. G. Kevin Wilson
Ian Finley Jon Ingold Michael Gentry Has been interviewed.
Mike Sousa Has been interviewed. Peter Nepstad Has been interviewed. Paul O'Brian Has been interviewed.
Dan Ravipinto Has been interviewed. Aaron Reed Has been interviewed. Robb Sherwin Has been interviewed.
MAGNETIC SCROLLS
Anita Sinclair David Bishop Geoff Quilley
Georgina Sinclair Hugh Steers Ken Gordon
Michael Bywater Paul Findley Rob Steggles
MUDS
Jim Aspnes Has been interviewed. Richard Bartle Has been interviewed. Jon Radoff Has been interviewed.
NON-COMPUTER
Andrea Packard Has been interviewed. Edward Packard Has been interviewed. Ray Montgomery Was contacted and responded.
SIERRA ONLINE / ONLINE SYSTEMS
Chuck Benton Has been interviewed. Ken Williams Roberta Williams
TOPOLOGIKA
David Seal Jonathan Partington Peter Killworth
Jon Thackray Not interested or unreachable.
EXPERTS
ACADEMICS
Mary Ann Buckles Dennis G. Jerz Has been interviewed. Noah Wardrip-Fruin Has been interviewed.
Stuart Moulthrop Has been interviewed. Nick Montfort Has been interviewed. Sarah Sloane
"The Top of Their Game" Authors
STORIES
Debee Norling Has been interviewed. Ernest W. Adams Has been interviewed. Martin Heller
Richard Hewison Has been interviewed.
WEBMASTERS
David Cornelson Has been interviewed. Demian Katz Has been interviewed. Eileen Mullin
Rick Adams Was contacted and responded.
PLAYERS
READERS
Austin Seraphin Has been interviewed. Michael Feir Has been interviewed. Stephen Granade
David Shaw Has been interviewed. Duncan Stevens David Welbourn Has been interviewed.
TEACHERS
Brendan Desilets Has been interviewed. Michael Eilers Has been interviewed. Jonathan Meyers Has been interviewed.
WRITERS
Jim Munroe
Total of 106 Cast Members.