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Wright's start at game design was an unconventional one. Beginning with a start at an architecture degree, followed by mechanical engineering, he fell into computers and robotics. Five years of college later did not produce a degree. His path did, however lead him to create the best-selling SimCity and eventually to the best selling computer game of all time, The Sims.
In an interview published in February 2003, Will claims that games were absorbing so much of his time, he decided that perhaps making games was the way to go. Wright's first game was Raid on Bungeling Bay for the Commodore 64Commodore 64 C64 CBM 64 was a popular home computer of the 1980s. Announced by Commodore Business Machines (founded and owned by Jack Tramiel) in January 1982 and released in September of that year at a price of US$595, it offered unprecedented value (sou. He hopes to inspire others to take risks in game creation.