Games Workshop co-founder, Fighting Fantasy author, and Eidos Interactive co-founder Sir Ian Livingstone recalled the moment he first saw Tomb Raider. In an interview, he said it was "love at first sight."
"As a games geek at Eidos, I followed all the projects in development. I went to Derby, to the Core Design studio, where I was met by managing director Jeremy Heath-Smith. We walked around the offices, looked at different games, but nothing was impressive - until we got to the last room," Livingstone recalls.
"And there I saw her. A female character was moving straight into the screen. In those years, almost all games were two-dimensional, but here was a three-dimensional heroine and a movable camera, you could look up and down. It looked incredible - the graphics, the technology, the unique image. The game combined exploration, puzzles and battles. I thought: \"Wow.\""
He expected sales of about 100,000 copies, but Tomb Raider sold 7 million copies. Livingstone admitted that he didn't even imagine how many people would also "fall in love at first sight."
