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In the 1970s Kroegel was a school teacher and later an HR manager who enjoyed playing computer war games. He had played games on his TRS-80 computer that had been designed by David Landry and the two corresponded. They decided to found a development studio, Tactical Design Group . Their first two games, '' The Battle Of Shiloh '' and '' Tigers In The Snow '', were published by SSI in 1981 . TDG created twelve SSI games from 1981 through 1988 , the last being '' Battles Of Napoleon ''. In '' for TDG, although he was an employee of SSI. He ultimately became VP of Product Development for SSI, and later served as President of the company. Kroegel played a key role in the creation of the Gold Box '' Dungeons & Dragons '' games, and the creation of the first graphical MMORPG , '' Neverwinter Nights '' on AOL . When SSI was acquired by by The Learning Company (which also acquired Boederbund), The Learning Company by Mattel , and the spin-off by Mattel to Gores (which occurred after he had left). Upon leaving SSI in 2000, Kroegel joined ''. EXTERNAL LINK |
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