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In lugnet.castle, Bruce Schlickbernd writes:
> Blizzard (originally Silicon and Synapse, then Brainstorm, now Blizzard) was
> founded by Alan Adham (Allen? I forget). Much of his early contract work was
> for the company he lived near, Interplay Productions. Interplay has been in
> Orange County (Southern California) for its entire existence - the latest city
> being Irvine for almost a decade. Blizzard has never been in Canada to my
> knowledge.
Didn't know they were ever called Brainstorm. Silicon & Synapse (after
creating great games like The Lost Vikings and Rock & Roll Racing) had decided
to change their name, mostly because no-one could pronounce synapse. They
decided to change their name to a common word known to most gamers that
everyone (so they thought) could pronounce: Chaos (maybe this was just after
Brainstorm?). They got tired of getting phone calls for "Chows" and "Kows" and
decided to change the name again. This time, it would be another word every
gamer should be able to pronounce: Ogre. After their first phone call referred
to them as "Ahg-gray" they knew they needed another name. It was winter, and
there was a headline on the newspaper that day saying something like "Blizzard
Kills 23" referring to a terrible snowstorm. They clipped out the headline,
stuck on the front office window, and they were Blizzard from then on.
The owners of Blizzard (and most of the employees) are big fans of the
miniatures game, Warhammer. As you can probably tell, they were hugely
influenced by it in the creation of Warcraft.
Tony
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