Brent Erickson is an American computer and video game developer.

Career

Erickson has been programming computer games since he was 12. At the age of 13 he produced/published a text-based adventure game called "Trek For Riches" for the

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. In 1992, he founded

Flashpoint Productions Flashpoint Productions later known as MediaTech West (also known as Bethesda West) was a video game developer based in Olympia, Washington. History Founded by Brent Erickson in Utah in 1992. In July 1994, the company moved from Utah to Lacey and ...

which was sold to

Bethesda Softworks Bethesda Softworks LLC is an American video game publisher based in Rockville, Maryland. The company was founded by Christopher Weaver in 1986 as a division of Media Technology Limited, and in 1999 became a subsidiary of ZeniMax Media. In its ...

in 1995. Erickson has been credited in over 50 software titles including such products as Martian Memorandum,

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, and the extremely popular golf simulation program, Links.

Personal life

He lived in Steilacoom as a child before his family moved to

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.He attended the

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for four years, but he never got his business degree because he was too busy actually working.

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1966 births American video game designers American video game producers American video game programmers Bethesda Softworks employees Living people People from Montrose, Colorado Video game writers {{videogame-bio-stub