Not the other way around! Will Wright is the one conducting the interview! The tables are turned!
Appalling History of Havoc
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Game history librarian who's constantly poking stuff to see what happens.
This comes from a super rare magazine we just acquired for the Video Game History Foundation: The First Decade of Computer Games, a supplement for Game Player's PC Entertainment from 1992 that tries to tell the early history of the game industry. It has a ton of unscanned interviews with big names in the early computer game scene, including Dani Bunten, Trip Hawkins, and Sid Meier.
This quote in particular was about the computer platform wars between Commodore and IBM. The point Wright was trying to make is that, in his view, in any format war, the cheaper, lower-tech standard will win, and I guess he was unhappy we went with DOS instead of Amiga.
(I made a Maxis Iceberg which I'm not ready to share yet for research reasons, but here is a graphic I made for it)
I've read a lot of Will Wright interviews but this is maybe the single funniest interview quote he ever gave.