Welcome to Disk Cleanup, our regular weekend column delving into the PCs of PC gaming luminaries. Come back every weekend to read a new interview, digging into the important questions, like "How tidy is your desktop?" and "What game will you never uninstall?"
Dave Oshry, CEO of New Blood Interactive, first encountered PC gaming on a 386 in his dad's office. "It had a game installed on it, and the game was just called 'Hero'. I've never been able to find this game since," he says. "You would go into taverns and talk to people, and then go out into the woods to try to fight goblins and stuff".
That game, it transpires, was the original Quest for Glory. But it was an encounter with Wolfenstein 3-D at a friend's house that Oshry says changed his life, starting him down the path to becoming the architect of the boomer-shooter revival.
"We're doing lots of crazy stuff," Oshry says of Fa...
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