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Message: <blockquote data-quote="piper909" data-source="post: 9640389" data-attributes="member: 7052169">I and Norman Royal worked at Metagaming back in the day and could tell you more. I'm not sure if I need to register on this site first before posting this reply.Ah, hey, I'm in!  Kevin Hendryx.  Both Norm and I are also on Facebook. Norm has been out of gaming professionally for decades; I worked as a freelancer for Metagaming in the late 70s, then on staff at TSR Hobbies 1980-81, then back to Metagaming on staff until Howard dissolved the company effectively in April 1982; then a year at Coleco in the home video game division, and then I left the hobby game biz as a professional but am still an active and avid gamer.  I sold a lot of Metagaming documents and memorabilia via eBay  to collectors in the later 90s -- decluttering and house moves -- and there used to be websites displaying bits of this ephemera (maybe still are).  Last I saw of ol' Howard was in the Austin newspaper decades ago -- he was living in Georgetown or Round Rock to the north of the city -- and was pictured and named in an article about a local atheist group he was active in. Nothing to do with games! He always was a dogmatic atheist.  I recognized him at once despite the baldness. I believe he also returned to work at a state agency post-Metagaming, as he had done before he started the company. And presumably retired in due course.  (He always bad-mouthed state workers at Metagaming but that didn't stop him from going back to stable employment.)  His marriage busted up shortly after Metagaming folded, or even during its folding.  Whether or not he's alive today (April 2025), I couldn't say.</blockquote>

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