CRAWFORDSVILLE, 2004 The video game class that appeared in the course catalogue stood out as unlikely subject matter for both the college and the professor. The single-sex, 900-student Wabash College was a liberal arts school that had never before covered the medium, and Professor Michael Abbott, the 41-year-old chair of the Theater department, had only a vocational interest in games and no experience teaching programming or game design. The course, envisioned as a history of video games, had
