Walton, Gordon

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Gordon Walton was born in Houston, TX in 1956. He served in the U.S. Army from 1974-1977 and earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Texas A&M in 1981. Walton published his first computer game, Trex-X, in 1978 and has since worked on titles such as Harpoon, the Sims Online, Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies for developers such as Three-Sixty Pacific, Electronic Arts and Origin Systems Inc. Walton is currently developing the MMORPG Star Wars: The Old Republic for Bioware in Austin, Texas.

From the guide to the Walton, Gordon, Papers 2008-239., 2009-264, (Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin)

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