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Re:In the ’80s, she was a video game pioneer. Today, no one ... by zero_deg_kevin on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @02:27PM (#26241677)
Right? You’d think that not having any kind of internet presence and making no discernible effort to take credit for the work would be enough of a hint. It’s hard to be that low profile unintentionally.

What does it take to be left alone? What does a person have to say/do for it to be taken as anything but an invitation to search for them?

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Re:In the ’80s, she was a video game pioneer. Today, no one ... by bryanlarsen on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @03:28PM (#26242465)
> It’s hard to be that low profile unintentionally.

On the contrary, it'd be hard not to have an extremely low profile with such a common name.

Add in the fact that it's been 40 years, and nobody has cared one single bit for the first 35 of those years.

Add in the fact that she probably didn't get any author credit for the game, so probably didn't even realize people knew her name.

Remember that the internet didn't exist in the eighties. I wrote a few video games in the 80s, and this is probably the first acknowledgement on the internet ever that the Bryan Larsen that wrote games for T&D software is this Bryan Larsen. And I'm much easier to find than most, since I'm the type of guy who uses my real name on forums like this.

I highly doubt anybody is going to care about my games, and I'm sure she never thought anybody would ever care either. She was wrong, but I'm sure I'm not.

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Re:In the ’80s, she was a video game pioneer. Today, no one ... by jonathankoren on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @03:17PM (#26242344)
Take credit for what? A 40 year old game that almost no one remembers, and even fewer bought? I don’t run around arguing for credit for scratching “COWS” with a compass on the inside of my high school locker 30 years ago.

I one time found the author of the book that got me interesting in programming as a kid back in the 80s, and after sending her a message on FB she was happy to find someone remembered it, let alone kept the book on their shelf as a memento.

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