On January 5, 1994 — 17 years ago today — game publisher Activision announced that it had hired 74-year-old former CIA director William Colby to consult on and direct a series of spy-themed computer games.
“[Colby’s] first-hand experience makes him the key to successful one-of-a-kind, true-to-life espionage thrillers,” Activision CEO Bobby Kotick said in a statement released to the press that day, promising that the series would have “all the elements of a major motion picture.”
