15 Facts About Brian Fargo

Frank Brian Fargo was born on December 15,1962 and is an American video game designer, producer, programmer and executive, and founder of Interplay Entertainment, inXile Entertainment and Robot Cache.

Brian Fargo wrote his first video game, Labyrinth of Martagon, with his friend Michael Cranford while still in high school.

The team's first widely distributed game was the graphical text adventure The Demon's Forge, which Brian Fargo self-published and guerilla marketed in 1981.

In 1982, Softline Magazine printed a letter from Brian Fargo asking how On-Line Systems stored graphics in its graphic adventure The Wizard and the Princess.

In 1983, Brian Fargo founded Interplay Productions prior to landing his first contract in 1983 with Activision for Mindshadow, a graphical text adventure game for the Apple II and Commodore 64.

Brian Fargo subsequently co-designed Interplay's early RPGs, including the critically acclaimed Wasteland, where a character named Faran Brygo is a play on his name.

Brian Fargo was experimenting at the time with new ideas and products such as Neuromancer, a video game version of the novel by William Gibson.

Brian Fargo continued to find talented small developers designing innovative games.

In 2000, Titus exercised a majority control of Interplay, and as a result, Brian Fargo resigned his position with the company.

The name inXile sprang from a joke for his post-Interplay career: initially, Brian Fargo gave himself the title of "leader-in-exile" at the company.

Brian Fargo developed a major title for Bethesda Softworks, Hunted: The Demon's Forge.

In 2012, inspired by the success of Double Fine Adventures fan funded model, Brian Fargo announced that he was going to attempt to fan-fund Wasteland 2 using the webservice Kickstarter.

In May 2015 Brian Fargo revealed The Bard's Tale IV and his intentions to launch a Kickstarter for it on June 2,2015.

In March 2017, Brian Fargo had announced his plans to retire from inXile following the release of Wasteland 3.

Brian Fargo announced the founding of Robot Cache, a new digital games storefront for personal computer games expected to go live in Q2 2018.