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In lugnet.castle, Tony A. Rowe writes:
> 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
Chaos. Yes, I seem to remember that one, too. People don't understand how to
pronounce the greek CH sound in this country sometimes.
The guy from company X is coming today, someone would say, and it would be
Allen Adham. "But wasn't your company named...?" And he would have to
patiently explain to me that well, that name had a problem and it was now
company Y. More than once, I assure you. :-)
Never saw any of 'em with Warhammer, but Allen bought a lot of Magic cards
from me a few years back.
Bruce
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