He's a god now...

Joystiq recently visited EA to take a look at Spore. While there they snapped some pictures of Will Wright's office and posted them for all to see. One of the pictures gives a nice look at the working space of westerns gamings most acclaimed designer. (Click to enlarge)
There is something very important hidden in the photo above, a detail Joystiq seems to have missed but is of great importance to our understanding of the game industry. Can't find it? Here is a hint.

That is right, Mr. Wright keeps old macs in his office. This is the the best explaination I have found so far for his unprecendented success. The raw bliss one can experience in proximity to such artifacts of computing divinity certainly has fueled his creative forces over the years.


As to specific models, I put forth that the tower is a 8100 or 8500. It is very hard to tell as they use the same case design. The other machine could be a 6100 but I do not see anything that could be a PowerPC logo under the floppy drive. This raises the possibility of a 660AVAs you can see here, the later model 660AV had a manual inject floopy drive with blug in the middle for the fingers rather than the straight lines of the auto inject floppys found on the earlier Centris 660av. The picture certainly looks to have a manual inject drive so Quarda 660av is a valid option. I like the idea of a PowerPC and 68k machine side by side, that way he has both architectures to run all the classic sim games!

I had some thoughts prepared for today, but this news is far too exciting for me to soil it with musings on the latest Sam & Max episode.