Talk:Robert Abbott (game designer)

message: Someone apparently put the bit about Sneakers into the article because of a confusion with this Robert Abbott, who is not the game inventor.
The security consultant is Robert P. Abbott.  If the game inventor is still checking in here, would you add your birthdate and/or middle name?  That will help prevent someone else from re-introducing this error down the road.  Besides, you owe me a favor after the damage that Ultima did to my undergraduate grade-point average.  :)  JamesMLane 02:49, 8 August 2005 (UTC
:There is now (finally) a birthdate. :) ~~ Hi878  (Come shout at me!) 05:01, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Different Robert Abbotts

message: Though early in his life he worked as a computer programmer with the IBM 360 assembly language, in the 1950s Abbott turned to game design.
That sentence implies that IBM 360 assembly language predated the 1950s. The IBM 360 series didn't emerge into daylight until the late 1960s.
All it needs is a little tinkering with the wording, but it would be better for someone familiar with the subject to take care of that. All I can do is point out this confusing phraseology.
Floozybackloves (talk) 14:49, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Attempted to fix. ~~ Hi878  (Come shout at me!) 17:20, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Confusing language 

message: Robert Abbott sent the following information to me in an e-mail.
~~ Hi878  (Come shout at me!) 23:48, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sent to me in an e-mail 

message: Why is this article under VG project? Only connection I see is that there is a video game version of Theseus and the Minotaur. Did Abbott program that version? --Mika1h (talk) 17:59, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I have wondered that quite a bit, actually. He invented the maze, which was turned into the game; that's what I came up with. He designed several of the levels, as well. ~~ Hi878  (Come shout at me!) 18:44, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Video games? 

message: The following content about some of Mr. Abbott's games was removed from this article as it was too much for an article about the man. I'm putting it here so that should articles be created about the games themselves in the future it is more prominently available. --Deadly∀ssassin 09:15, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I told you already; the articles already exist. :) However, much of this information isn't in them, so it is still useful. ~~ Hi878  (Come shout at me!) 22:36, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Preserving Games Content More Visibly For Later Use 

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