The 2011 Game Developer Conference reaches its 25th year, and they’re putting a spin on their anniversary by bringing developers to speak on their classic works – Toru Iwatani will be speaking about the original Pac-Man, John Romero will be discussing about DOOM, David Crane will be talking about Pitfall (I played the heck out of this game on my Atari back in the day), and Will Wright will be discussing Raid On Bungeling Bay:
“Before he became a household name with gamers, Will Wright created Raid on Bungeling Bay, a helicopter action/strategy title for the Commodore 64, NES, and and MSX. The unassuming game would serve as the inspiration for Wright’s much, much, much more popular Sim City series, as it was during his tinkering with Raid on Bungeling Bay’s editor that the designer discovered building complex cities was more fun and had more potential than destroying them.”
GDC 11 will take place February 28th to March 4th, 2011.
Shoutout to Skyline for passing this info along!
Whoa, count me in as highly intrigued! I hope this is released as a video online or something, I would love to see this talk from Wright, as well as the others. Rare he talks much about Bungeling Bay except little snippets in interviews here and there, so I’d like to hear more. I’ve got the game on the C64 and NES, I had forgotten about the MSX version. Must track it down!