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Andrew C. Greenberg
Andrew Clifford Greenberg (1957 – August 28, 2024) was an American video game developer and patent attorney. He co-created Wizardry with Robert Woodhead, one of the first role-playing video games for a personal computer.[1][2] He was also involved with the production of the game Q*bert and several of the later Wizardry games in the 1980s. He was a graduate of Cornell University, where he did his first work on role-playing video games. He also was a proficient tuba player. With Rick Dutton, Walter Freitag, and Michael Massimilla he created Star Saga One: Beyond the Boundary & Star Saga: Two - The Clathran Menace, in 1988 and 1989 respectively. Both were released by Masterplay Publishing.[1] The name of the evil wizard in the first Wizardry game is Werdna, Andrew spelled backwards. After working as a patent attorney with Carlton Fields, a law firm in Tampa, Florida, Andrew moved to San Francisco, California where he served as an executive and general counsel for a renewable energy company. Greenberg was a past Chairman of the Intellectual Property Committee for the IEEE, and has received the Institute's National Citation of Honor. Greenberg had married Sheila McDonald, a play-tester of the Wizardry series, and had two children.[1] Robert Woodhead and David Mullich reported that Greenberg died on August 30, 2024, at the age of 67.[3][4] References
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