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3 unusual facts about Ron Gilbert


Cavedog Entertainment

Cavedog Entertainment was a label created in 1996 by Humongous Entertainment, a developer of children's computer games founded by Ron Gilbert and Shelley Day, to pursue the creation of mainstream games.

La Grande, Oregon

Ron Gilbert, a computer game designer, best known for his work on several LucasArts adventure games

Ron Gilbert

He became interested in games when he was thirteen years old thanks to a Texas Instruments TI-59 programmable calculator his father used to bring home.


Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders

Lead designer and programmer David Fox, consulted with New Age writer David Spangler, before Ron Gilbert and Matthew Alan Kane persuaded Fox to increase the humorous aspects of the game.


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