Leif Bloomquist and I grew up in the same small town and were members of our local Computer Club. Leif claims that the first computer game he ever saw was Forest of Doom (the original unfinished version) and it made a big impression on him.
Leif has gone on to much bigger and better things like navigation coding for Mars rovers and the Osiris Rex project with NASA. (But he started with the CoCo & Commodore computers!)
