Roberta Williams, AKA the "Queen of the Graphic Adventure"

In 1979 Roberta was inspired by the text-only pc game, Adventure, to design a game that combined storytelling text with graphics. She used her husband's software engine and an Apple II home computer to create Mystery House, which was an instant hit and spawned the adventure game genre. She and her husband formed the Sierra game company and became an influential force in the pc game industry. She wrote & designed most of their game catalog, including the ground-breaking and controversial psychological horror hit, Phantasmagoria. Phantasmagoria used live-action actors and footage, as well as three-dimensionally rendered environments and worked off of Roberta's 550-page script. Her games have won many awards and a few of Roberta's popular classics can still be played on Steam and Great Old Game/GOG. Roberta Williams officially retired in 1996, but she's left a remarkable legacy of more than thirty iconic games.