Thread by @dsmart

22 years ago today, my first game, Battlecruiser 3000AD (BC3K) was released.

The History.

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1046776…

I also remember how Take 2 tried to shape the narrative and pin the blame on me. Claiming that I was mad at them over the game, kicked a coke machine, and quit the development.

And CGW, without a SINGLE effort to fact check, printed it.

And another BC3K meme was born.

It wasn't until many years later in 2001, that they revealed they had done a follow-up and got someone on the record to say that it was all fiction that didn't actually happen.

That's the sort of crap that I was dealing with at the time. So I kept fighting back.

A few years later, the CEO of Take 2 was up on charges for an accounting scam.

wsj.com/articles/SB107…

gamesindustry.biz/articles/ryan-…

Barred by the SEC and end up in a plea deal with probation.

nytimes.com/2007/08/01/bus…

The SEC charges were a laundry list.

sec.gov/litigation/lit…

For those of you sending me DMs about the resolution of that CGW article, I can't locate the source material to capture high res images. But here is the readable PDF version.

3000ad.com/press/01-04-00…