Peter Langston

Peter Langston is a computer programmer who wrote and distributed for free several games for Unix systems in the 1970s, including one of the earliest text adventure video games Wander, the original version of Empire and the program "Oracle" upon which the later net-wide Oracle was modeled. He is also an experienced jazz, rock, and folk musician. He wrote his first game in 1965.
Category:Musicians from Seattle
Category:American folk guitarists
Category:American male guitarists
Category:American rock guitarists
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Category:1946 births
Category:Guitarists from Washington
Category:Lucasfilm people
Category:20th-century American guitarists
Category:Place of birth missing
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In 1982, he was hired as the first employee by the Computer Division of Lucasfilm to start Lucasfilm Games. He hired the programming and design teams and wrote the music for and contributed to the game design of Lucasfilm Games' first two releases, Ballblazer and Rescue on Fractalus!. In fact, for Ballblazer, Langston created an algorithmic composition system, which allowed the game to improvise music based on what is happening in the game. Langston later left Lucasfilm Games for Bellcore. Langston retired in 1991, and is now consulting and running adult music camps.