Trivial Pursuit co-founder Chris Haney dies
p2pnet view Games:- In 1979 Canadian journalists Chris Haney (left) and Scott Abbott (right) started a new game which almost instantly went viral.
It was called Trivial Pursuit.
Once a photo editor at the Montreal Gazette, Haney died yesterday after a long illness at the age of 59.
Abbott was a Canadian Press sports editor.
As of 2004[update], nearly 88 million games had been sold in 26 countries and 17 languages, says the Wikipedia.
(Cheers, Andrew aka comeoncomecast)
June, 2010
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June 1st, 2010 at 6:46 pm
Hard to believe that it’s already been 2 years since Dungeons & Dragons inventor Gary Gygax died. D&D and Trivial Pursuit were the two “modern” games I remember it seemed just about everyone was playing when I was growing up.
Does anyone know what Chris Haney died from? It seems that whenever someone relatively young dies from an unspecified “long illness” it’s often Aids.