Brian Fargo
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Brian Fargo during his keynote at the Game Developers Conference China 2011.
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Frank Brian Fargo December 15, 1962 Long Beach, California, US |
| Occupation | CEO of inXile Entertainment |
Brian Fargo (born December 15, 1962) is an American video game designer, producer, programmer and executive, and founder of Interplay Entertainment and inXile Entertainment.
A descendant of the family that created the banking giants Wells Fargo and American Express, Fargo was born in Long Beach, California, and grew up in Whittier and Newport Beach. The only child of Frank Byron Fargo and Marie Curtis Fargo, he attended Corona del Mar High School, where he participated in track and field and developed a desire to create video games after his parents bought him an Apple II computer in 1977.
Brian Fargo wrote his first video game, Labyrinth of Martagon, with his friend Michael Cranford while still in high school. The team's first widely distributed game was the graphical text adventure The Demon's Forge, which Brian self-published and guerilla marketed in 1981 (and was later re-released by Boone Corporation). In 1982, Softline Magazine printed a letter from Fargo asking how On-Line Systems stored graphics in its graphic adventure The Wizard and the Princess. During this time period he also wrote educational games for the World Book Encyclopedia.
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