CONTENTS

EPISODE ONE: PROTOTYPING

Chapter 1: The Talk

Chapter 2: More ROM than RAM

Chapter 3: Sonoran Son

Chapter 4: Uprooted

Chapter 5: AJR

EPISODE TWO: DEVELOPMENT

Chapter 6: Programmers’ Roundtable

Chapter 7: An Origin Story

Chapter 8: PC Conversion

Chapter 9: Lightning Strikes

EPISODE THREE: LAUNCH

Chapter 10: The Bootstrap Start-up

Chapter 11: Foundation

Chapter 12: Destined to DOOM

Chapter 13: The World Is DOOMed

Chapter 14: The Icon of Sin

Chapter 15: Fault Lines

Chapter 16: Tremors

Chapter 17: Quake

Chapter 18: Aftershocks

EPISODE FOUR: POST LAUNCH

Chapter 19: Dream Design

Chapter 20: Ion Storm

Chapter 21: Columbine

Chapter 22: Hitting Bottom

Chapter 23: Open-World Exploration

Chapter 24: The Grass Is Greener

Chapter 25: The Road to Hell Is Paved with Good Intentions

Chapter 26: Blackroom

Chapter 27: The Icon of Sin Returns

Epilogue

Acknowledgments