An Interview with Developer Charles Griffith

The victory that led to this entry. Earlier this year, I had an opportunity to exchange some emails with Charles Griffith, who contacted me after seeing my entries on The Red Crystal (1993), an intriguing but buggy game that Griffith wrote himself after he left Paragon Software. At Paragon, he had worked on MegaTraveller 1: The Zhodani Conspiracy (1990) and MegaTraveller 2: Quest for the Ancients (1991) as well as three non-RPGs created under Paragon's Marvel license: The Amazing Spider-Man and Captain America in Doctor Doom's Revenge! (1990), The Punisher (1990), and X-Men II: The Fall of the Mutants (1990). Readers who were around for my coverage of the Paragon titles may remember my constant frustration. The company managed to score licenses from both Marvel and The Games Workshop; under the latter, they developed not only the two MegaTraveller games but also Space 1889 (1990) and Twilight: 2000 (1991). If that seems like a lot of games for a couple of years . . . well, yeah.…