Were the Marvel Questprobe games originally released as text-only games?
No Questprobe was always graphics with the underlying text. Note all my adventures could be played with the graphics off if wanted. The game never depended on them. So there were three games in the series – Spider-Man, The Hulk, and The Fantastic Four (Human Torch and The Thing)? Correct. There was supposed be a full series of a dozen games, but the company went out of business before this was completed. Oh, so you’d licensed further characters from Marvel? I had rights to use their entire character set. What was it like to work with Marvel, back in those days? It was a great privilege to work with the Marvel writers and artists. Jim Shooter was the editor in chief at the time and I really looked up to him. In fact since he was soooo taallll EVERYONE looked up to him! How did you begin working with Marvel? Joe Calamari who was vice president of Marvel at the time contacted us. He was real big about trying to get the characters licensed in different areas and thought we would be the bes
