Clearing out some old papers I just found this musty old document from 1983.

It's called Zombies. I think it's in BASIC. Here are the front and final pages of 15 in all. Have no idea whether it would actually run.

I must have been a fairly strange kid - various dreadful things happen to the main protagonist when he selects the wrong option. These include electrocution, death by fire, being roasted alive, super heated steam burns, bombing, becoming a grizzly bear's meal, falling into a spiked trench, being attacked by Stuka dive bombers, earthquakes, deadly snake bites, and being executed by Samurais.

The weird thing is that the quest ends with the contestant entering New York.

We are the pretty petty thieves,
And you're standing on our street

Simple, useful stuff from @randomculture (http://www.randomculture.com), from a talk given at Boulder Digital Works (http://bdw.colorado.edu/). Very often we see discussion of what Madison Ave can learn from start-ups & tech companies. Far less frequently we read lessons about what those with an advertising and marketing background might teach the geeks and engineers. This covers both. The number one point, around branding, is so easily overlooked; in many ways, it's the number one contribution Madison Ave can make to the success of often ill-defined and rapidly growing B2C tech companies.

Here's a one slide summary.

Heads up to @iboy (George Nimeh) for the link.

'The only thing that we can be sure about the future, is that it will be absolutely fantastic'.

Brilliant stuff, albeit not entirely on the mark. Wish I'd seen the whole programme.