2 posts tagged with "games"

Today I learned that the fictional Princess Zelda is named after Zelda Fitzgerald and that Robin Williams named his daughter after the princess because he was playing the game. I did the deep dive after reading a comment₁ in The Paris Review about The Legend of Zelda₂ likely because it came through my feed reader and we've been playing the game. The comment centered around "Can video games be considered art?" to which I would reply that the creator, Shigeru Miyamoto₃ graduated from Kanazawa College of Art₄.

Today I learned that Dennis Ritchies Ph.D. thesis was never accepted and that his son created a game company called Binary Arts _1,2. The reason this was important to me is because I use Unix daily and had a collection of puzzles which included Spin-Out from Bill Ritchie's company.