Educational games

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This hard drive (titled "nonnetwork backups-1" when recovered) contains files from William Volk's work at Activision from 1988–1994, as well as some files and videos related to Volk's work at Lightspan Partnership.

Scope and Contents This disc includes assets for the following games: Dream Team Basketball "Obelisk" (Beyond Time) Olympic Soccer Olympic Summer Games Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 (3DO port, unreleased) Alphabet Adventure Dinosaurs...

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This is a collection of production materials, memos, correspondence, scripts, press and marketing materials, press clippings, and demo software from CyberFlix Incorporated. In particular, this collection includes an extense amount of pre-production research materials and multiple draft scripts for Cyberflix's 1996 game Titanic: Adventure Out of Time, for which Andrew Nelson served as writer and producer.

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This issue of Games Business includes a "Special Educational Software Supplement" section (p.35–49).

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This issue of Games Business includes a "Special Kids Supplement" section covering children's software (p.23–36).

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This hard drive (titled "nonnetwork backups-2" when recovered) primarily contains files from William Volk's work at Lightspan Partnership in 1994. A substantial amount of this backup is personal correspondence, particularly about Volk's interest in recumbent cycling.

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This collection currently includes several dozen video game and software retailer catalogs. This includes both physical and mail-order retailers. Catalogs sent directly by game publishers are separately (see "Video game publisher product catalogs").

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The library's scan of this catalog includes a shipping envelope and an advertisement insert for the software Music Ace. It is unclear where the Music Ace insert was originally placed in the catalog, so both extras were placed at the end of the scan.

Abstract William Volk was the Vice President of Technology at Activision from 1988–1994. As VP of technology, Volk was involved with high-level production and technology decisions throughout Activision at a transitional moment for video game and computer hardware. He served as technical lead for Activision's efforts to produce multimedia titles and oversaw the company's adoption of new platforms including multimedia-compatible computers, Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis, PlayStation, 3DO, and...