Re: Whatever Happened To Jim Townsend?

From: ppdude@aol.com (PPDude)

Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 00:00:00 +0000

>> Whatever happened to Jim Townsend, the fellow who created and moderated
the PBM game, Blood Pit, a gladiatorial type simulation reminiscent of
the stuff from RSI, in the late 80s and (maybe) early 90s? Townsend had
early in his career taken over the game company Emprise Game Systems,
formerly headed by Steve Gray of Southern California. I heard he was
collaborating at one point with White Wolf. But he seems to have
disappeared over the past few years, which I thought was somewhat
unusual in that he was a hard-core, diehard PBMer. Anybody have any info
on the guy's whereabouts...I'm merely curious. <<

Jim Townsend purchased Blood Pit from a company called Affairs of Honor
after having moderated Xenophobe for several years and shortly after
completing the merger with Emprise Game Systems and taking on that name
for his company.  He eventually sold Emprise to White Wolf and took a job
there as Network Administrator and other various duties.

After a year and a half or so, he was hired away by a company in Texas and
moved there.  After nine months, the company went under (too much PBM
playing on Townsend's part, yeah that did it) and Jim moved back out to
California, land of his birth, in 1995.  Since then he's held several
programming and network administration jobs in various high-tech
companies.

Jim currently lives in San Diego and hasn't touched a PBM game in years.

References

Whatever Happened To Jim Townsend?
"Daniel A. Dias" <ddias@vornet.com>
Sun, 29 Dec 1996 00:00:00 +0000