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A Guide to the Brad Fregger Videogame Collection, 1982-1997
Biographical NoteOver the course of two decades, Brad Fregger produced over 100 business and consumer software products, many of which were videogames. He began his career in the game industry in 1981 at Atari, as Director of Training, and soon moved to product development at Activision. In April of 1983, Activision named Fregger as its first Computer Game Producer, and he went on to produce several titles for the company, including Pitfall II: Lost Caverns, Ghostbusters, Master of the Lamps, Great American Cross Country Road Race, Fast Tracks, Fireworks Construction Set, Hacker, Hacker II: The Doomsday Papers, Aliens, Murder on the Mississippi, Shanghai, Portal, Transformers, Designer Pencil, Garry Kitchen’s GameMaker, GameMaker Designer’s Library – Two Volumes, Sports and Science Fiction, Music Studio, and Paintworks. Fregger left Activision in 1986 to co-found Publishing International/Software Resources International, where he produced and published the first computer solitaire game, Solitaire Royale. While working at Publishing International/Software Resources International Fregger produced and designed additional titles, including Solitaire Deluxe, Solitaire for Windows, The Dragon (FMTowns), Ed Bogas’ Music Machine (FMTowns), Ed Bogas’ Music Machine Lite (FMTowns), Seize the Day, 18 Seize the Dat Plug-ins, Heaven and Earth, Steepia (FMTowns), Steepia Life (FMTowns), Ishido 1989, Ishido 1990, Hometown U.S.A. (Won 1988 Software Publishers Association Excellence in Software Award for Best Creativity Program for an Educational Product), Pharaoh’s Revenge, and Reader Rabbit. After working at Publishing International/Software Resources International, Fregger went on to produde Windows and Mac versions of Jack Nicklaus 4: Computer Golf and Jack Nicklaus 5: Computer Golf for Accolade, in the 1990s. Return to the Table of Contents Scope and ContentsThe collection consists of 33 videogame or software products, most of which are copies of games that Fregger produced at Activision and Publishers International. The collection also includes Fregger’s autobiography Lucky That Way, and two oversized uncut game box sheets. Return to the Table of Contents RestrictionsAccess RestrictionsPublished games in our UTVGA collections are available for research by appointment only. Please contact the Briscoe Center Digital Archivist, Jessica Meyerson, at j.meyerson@austin.utexas.edu for more information. Use RestrictionsThe University of Texas Digital Repository (UTDR) holds digital works and provides related services that together constitute a campus institutional repository. The Repository was established to provide open, online access to the products of the University’s research and scholarship, to preserve these works for future generations, to promote new models of scholarly communication, and to help deepen community understanding of the value of higher education. The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History (DBCAH) makes available born digital materials from its collections through the use of the UTDR. On the UTDR, The DBCAH Community houses born digital materials from collections within our repository allowing researchers the ability to access these materials from the DBCAH reading room or remotely. When clicking on a link within a finding aid a new tab will open and you will be taken to the relevant UTDR page. There you will see the record for the work you have selected. This work record consists of information such as the title, description, subject, files in the work, access restriction notes and other information. Any questions related to UTDR access, please contact Colleen Lyon, Repository Curator, at utdr-general@utlists.utexas.edu to report the problem. For any questions regarding access to the digital material of the collection please contact Briscoe Center Digital Archivist, Jessica Meyerson, at j.meyerson@austin.utexas.edu. Advance notice required for retrieval. Contact repository for retrieval. Return to the Table of Contents Related Material
Return to the Table of Contents Administrative InformationPreferred CitationBrad Fregger Videogame Collection, 1982-1997, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin. Processing InformationThis collection was processed by Zach Vowell, June 2013. Subsequent revisions made by Matthew Cepeda, January 2015. Return to the Table of Contents Detailed Description of the Papers
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