In 1986, Tass Times in Tonetown followed. Interplay's parser was developed by Fargo and an associate and in one version understands about 250 nouns and 200 verbs as well as prepositions and indirect objects. The conversion, entirely coded by Rebecca Heineman, was released in 1986 via Electronic Arts for the United States and Ariolasoft for the European market. The same year, Interplay Productions, then contracted out by Electronic Arts, ported EA's Racing Destruction Set to the Atari 8-bit family of computers. These adventures built upon work previously done by Fargo: his first game was the 1981-published Demon's Forge.
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Borrowed Time which features a script by Arnie Katz' Subway Software followed in 1985. Published in 1984, Mindshadow is loosely based on Robert Ludlum's Bourne Identity while The Tracer Sanction puts the player in the role of an interplanetary secret agent. After negotiations with Activision, Interplay entered a US$100,000 contract to produce three illustrated text adventures for them. The first projects were non-original and consisted of software conversions and even some military work for Loral Corporation. When Boone eventually folded, the four got together with investor Chris Wells and, believing they could create a company that was better than Boone, founded Interplay in October 1983. Prior to Interplay, the company's founding developers- Brian Fargo, Troy Worrell, Jay Patel, and Rebecca Heineman-worked for Boone Corporation, a video game developer based in California. The logo used for Interplay Productions on the cover of Wasteland Brian Fargo stated that the logo was intended to resemble a person seated in front of a keyboard.