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Happy Puppy / Dani Bunten Berry / Features |
 | | Most of Bunten's early work was for the Atari 800, which remains the only personal computer to ship with hardware for play by multiple players; and her games of the late '80s and early '90s (Modem Wars, Command HQ, and Global Conquest) were all designed around modem or network play. |
 | | And it is a particular tragedy that her career should be cut short at this unhappy juncture, now that network gaming is burgeoning--a tragedy not solely for Dani, but for all of us, for she understood the requirements and aesthetic of multiplayer gaming better than anyone else in the field. |
 | | One of the agonies of her later years was that the degree of her estrangement from her former spouses made it difficult to maintain her relationship with her children whom, by all evidence, she adored. |
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