An Interview with Roberta Williams

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  • Опубліковано 17 жов 2024
  • Roberta Williams describing how she creates the story and graphics for a computer game. To her left is Ken Williams, her husband, and the interviewer is Jon Eklund. Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 9533, Session 1 Tape 1.

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  • @chrisgo6478
    @chrisgo6478 3 роки тому +30

    This lady's games brought me a lot of fun when I was a kid. Being disabled all my life these games gave me the ability to distract myself from all I missed out on in my childhood; it gave me alot of comfort where there wasn't much. Thanks Mr. & Mrs. Williams

    • @11dubs30
      @11dubs30 2 роки тому +1

      Thats really amazing

  • @Wulfdane
    @Wulfdane 2 роки тому +8

    I rarely used this worrd, but Roberta Williams is true legend in gaming - her contributions are immeasurable.

  • @mulderscully3707
    @mulderscully3707 6 років тому +25

    This woman is the queen of video games!💗

    • @Xaind_Red_Steel
      @Xaind_Red_Steel 5 років тому +3

      No, is the Queen of non logical puzzles in video-game

    • @zaphodbbrox
      @zaphodbbrox 4 роки тому +1

      Indeed, a true legend.

  • @S0nyToprano
    @S0nyToprano 2 роки тому +4

    In my eyes, the first queen of gamers. We have MUCH to thank for Roberta and her husband, Ken.

    • @digitalmagicAR
      @digitalmagicAR Рік тому

      I agree. Those two and their company Sierra brought a lot of good memories to a lot of people

  • @jimmyg.
    @jimmyg. 9 років тому +14

    Please post the rest of this interview!

  • @muzboz
    @muzboz 3 роки тому +5

    What an absolute legend!
    Surely there is another several hours of this glorious chit chat with Roberta, to be found somewhere? :)
    I'd love to see more. :D

  • @DoctorWhy777
    @DoctorWhy777 11 років тому +15

    Life would have been bleak without sierra

  • @ClifHaley
    @ClifHaley Рік тому

    So much love for these two folks.

  • @vincentm.7462
    @vincentm.7462 2 роки тому +1

    She shaped my childhood

  • @EdwinStreet
    @EdwinStreet 11 років тому +4

    Please upload the full interview.

  • @champ666ZA
    @champ666ZA Рік тому

    The greatest of all time.

  • @zkdr6278
    @zkdr6278 2 роки тому +3

    ngl i don't even care what age she is she's still a cutie

  • @theTRUTHgroup
    @theTRUTHgroup 2 роки тому

    Greatness!

  • @PichaelProductions216
    @PichaelProductions216 Рік тому +2

    Gamegrumps brought me here.

    • @ts_of_defunct
      @ts_of_defunct Рік тому +1

      I got this recommended after watching that episode

  • @SevenDeMagnus
    @SevenDeMagnus 5 років тому

    HI. Where are they now and how can they be contacted?

  • @JT-bc5cd
    @JT-bc5cd 3 роки тому +18

    Notice how womanly and feminine Mrs. Williams is. This is sorely missing in today’s “try to be a man” feminism.
    A real woman can be successful in a business (if she desires to pursue such a life) without trying to be a man.
    I miss Sierra

    • @April_Mack
      @April_Mack 3 роки тому +10

      Women, if you want to be feminine, be feminine. If you want to be masculine, be masculine. Either way, don't let someone like this guy tell you how you should be. He has zero say.

    • @JT-bc5cd
      @JT-bc5cd 3 роки тому

      @@April_Mack Lol, nice strawman-I never once stated or even indicated “how [one] should be.”. I was simply stating that a woman being feminine can be very virtuous and lead to paths of success (and in my opinion happier personal outcomes in most cases).
      Funny thing is, you seem like the type of control freak personality who almost certainly tells everyone how to be, and are projecting your own evil onto me.

    • @April_Mack
      @April_Mack 3 роки тому +4

      @@JT-bc5cd "I know you are, but what am I?" Any more brilliant insights, angry old man?

    • @JT-bc5cd
      @JT-bc5cd 3 роки тому

      @@April_Mack If that is what you got out of my rebuttal to your dumb ass comment, then you are cretin of the highest order.

    • @April_Mack
      @April_Mack 3 роки тому +5

      @@JT-bc5cd Sorry, bro. Go police gender norms in the mall if they haven't banned you from there yet.

  • @Uhfgood
    @Uhfgood 10 років тому

    She didn't answer thequestion, he wanted to know how she went about it, but she was telling what she liked about doing it.

    • @noblelies
      @noblelies 6 років тому +8

      0:57 - Listening comprehension is becoming a lost skill these days.

    • @Xaind_Red_Steel
      @Xaind_Red_Steel 5 років тому +1

      Exactly, just like her non-logical puzzles, in which she pretends to give the illusion that you solved it by merit, but mostly it was a random lack of logic, which was solved at the cost of many random attempts

  • @TreJowy
    @TreJowy 9 років тому +3

    Shame that she is such an elitist.

    • @internship1033
      @internship1033 8 років тому +8

      How?

    • @noblelies
      @noblelies 6 років тому +3

      Back then, only the wealthy and elite even played PC games. The average basic home PC capable of playing what were high-end games back then adjusted for inflation cost about $20,000 in today's dollars and another $2,000 in accessories. She even admits upfront in several interviews that this was a very niche and wealthy market.

    • @riggermortisfpv526
      @riggermortisfpv526 5 років тому +18

      @@noblelies BS, I was a poor kid and lived in a rental controlled high rise, I saved for a PC (Epson x86 equity +1) and played all of her games.

    • @zaphodbbrox
      @zaphodbbrox 4 роки тому +13

      ​@@noblelies What?? You must be thinking of the 60s. All my friends played Sierra's and Roberta's games and we were all from low to middle income households.

    • @Dudemon-1
      @Dudemon-1 3 роки тому +1

      They were high-priced. Could never afford them.