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Article: All in a Day's Play; Keeping it virtually real at Richmond's Computer Games magazine
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- Seven Days
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- October 12, 2005
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Steve Bauman gets to play God for a living - sort of. He's free to spend hours, even days, inventing the wheel, discovering gunpowder and creating the alphabet. Eventually, he'll get around to inventing higher mathematics, discovering nuclear fission and, if he's feeling particularly benevolent, ending slavery and promoting democracy.
Bauman doesn't suffer from a Messiah complex, though many teenaged boys - and probably a few adult men - might dream about being him. Bauman is editor-in-chief of Computer Games, a monthly national magazine based in Richmond, Vermont, that caters to computer-games enthusiasts. His job, when he's not raising virtual armies and conquering fantasy cities, is ...