ABSTRACT
The thing that the author personally think, if they are going to tell a story like this, is it works because everybody’s actually having a pretty good time. In addition to weight lifting, which they regularly enjoyed together, all three were, according to St. John, “100% D&D playing computer nerds, all big board game Diplomacy, Axis & Allies strategy game players.” In addition to stolen data from the Consumer Group, St. John had done his own research, going directly to the source—the game developers themselves. The majority of game developers hated Microsoft, viewing them as an evil empire, with St. John himself being an incarnation of Darth Vader, which St John made fun of. Taking Fun Seriously presents a roadmap to the technologies proposed to make Windows a dynamic and competitive platform for the games that the game industry actually wanted to make—as opposed to what many at Microsoft thought of as games or multimedia.
