The things you learn...
Jun. 19th, 2025 08:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
As if the fact that they were playing around with synthesizers in the early '80s wasn't proof enough that The Human League were big geeks, I fell down a Wikipedia rabbit hole the other day and learned that their name came from a 1974 science fiction board game called Star Force: Alpha Centauri.
On a whim, I just checked and one can buy a copy of Star Force: Alpha Centauri on Ebay for about $20, including shipping.
And, in a final bit of trivia, the design of Star Force: Alpha Centauri, Redmond A. Simonsen, is credited with inventing the term "game designer." (According to an obituary for Simonsen written by Greg Costikyan: "Before he did, we had no good term – game inventor, game author... but he put his finger on what we do.")