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Eh why not. Afterwards maybe I'll start posting the interesting articles I've found about the behind the scenes stuff of Xbox and it's games

- Microsoft's first game was an unlicensed version of Colossal Caves called Microsoft Adventure. A text adventure game.
- Thier first official game was Microsoft Flight Simulator. It was already a series which Microsoft got the rights to. According to the Guinness World records in 2012 it's the longest lasting video game series.
- Flight Simulator was used to test Intel compatibility all the way until windows 7
- Microsoft rejected publishing Zork because they already had an adventure game. They didn't think people wanted another one. Bill Gates later told the developer if he knew this he would have overridden the decision and "if I had gotten my hands on it you would have never got it back"
- Microsoft in the early 90's was very competitive. Your job was to create a plan, determine a direction, find an opportunity and convince others. If you were in a meeting with Gates and he asks you a question about your plan/product and you didn't know the answer you would fail.
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Darmik