July 7, 1986
Got a call from Ed Badasov at Broderbund.
“I understand you want to come out here,” he said.
I explained: “I figure it’ll take me a year to do the game, so what I’d like to do is relocate to the Bay Area. If I could stay with someone for the first couple of weeks until I find an apartment, that’d be a big help.”
He asked if the project was a sequel to Karateka. When I told him it wasn’t, his enthusiasm dimmed noticeably. I felt like I was talking to a studio executive.
