| Halcyon Days: Interviews with Classic Computer and Video Game Programmers | |
| Author: | James Hague |
| Subject: | Software Development |
| Genre: | Non-fiction |
| Pub Date: | 1997 |
Halcyon Days: Interviews with Classic Computer and Video Game Programmers is a digital book edited by James Hague and published in 1997.[1] [2] The book was originally formatted using HTML and sold via mail-order, shipped on a floppy disk by Dadgum Games for USD $20.[3] In 2002, Halcyon Days was made freely available on the web.[1] [4] The book continued to be sold by Dr. Dobb's Journal, on a CD-ROM also containing Susan Lammers's Programmers at Work,[5] until Dr. Dobb's shut down at the end of 2014.
The introduction to Halcyon Days is written by John Romero[6] who told Wired News the interviews were "like hearing messages from old gods."[7]
Halcyon Days has since become a common reference for writings on game history, including Racing the Beam (MIT Press, 2009),[8] and Retrogame Archeology (Springer, 2016).[9]