David Shapiro
aka:
Dr. Cat,
Dave Shapiro
Moby ID: 491
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David Shapiro joined Origin in 1986. He worked on quite a few different games including the C64 version of Moebius and the Ultima 1 rewrite. He is best known for his work on Ultima 6 for which he created a large portion of the characters and dialogue.
Mr. Shapiro created the fantasy multiplayer on-line game Furcadia as part of his own company Dragon's Eye Productions.
Credited on 13 games
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| Ultima: Warriors of Destiny (1993, NES) | Additional Design |
| Ultima Underworld II: Labyrinth of Worlds (1993, DOS) | Level / Scenario Design |
| Ultima VI: The False Prophet (1992, Amiga) | Writing |
| Ultima: Runes of Virtue (1991, Game Boy) | Design |
| Windwalker (1989, Apple II) | Programming Assistance |
| Omega (1989, DOS) | Terminal Supports |
| Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny (1989, Commodore 64) | Commodore 64/128 conversion by |
| Ultima I (1987, DOS) | Programmers |
| Moebius: The Orb of Celestial Harmony (1986, Commodore 64) | Adapted to Commodore 64 by |
| Rings of Zilfin (1986, Commodore 64) | Graphics routines from Penguin Software's 'Graphics Magician' were written by |
| The Quest (1984, DOS) | IBM PC/PCjr by |
| Expedition Amazon (1983, Apple II) | Program support |
| The Caverns of Freitag (1982, Apple II) | by |
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Frequent Collaborators
People- 7 games with Denis R. Loubet
- 7 games with Dallas Snell
- 7 games with Richard Garriott
- 6 games with John Miles
- 5 games with Glen Johnson
- 5 games with Alan Gardner
- 4 games with John Watson
- 4 games with Greg Paul Malone II
- 4 games with Amanda Dee
- 4 games with Lori Ogwulu
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Companies
- 9 games with ORIGIN Systems, Inc.
- 2 games with Pony Canyon, Inc.
- 2 games with Fujisankei Communications...
- 2 games with Polarware
- 2 games with MicroMagic, Inc.
- 1 game with Mindscape International Ltd.
- 1 game with Strategic Simulations, Inc.
- 1 game with Looking Glass Studios, Inc.
- 1 game with Abersoft Limited
- 1 game with Hit Squad, The
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