It was incredible to be able to sit down and just listen to him speak."
"He came to Raven and spent a good deal of time with the team discussing his career, and sharing how people react in combat situations, how they trained, the best way to approach a situation – you name it. "It was the Soldier Of Fortune magazine team who recommended John as a consultant," Soldier Of Fortune project coordinator Eric Biessman says on how Mullins became involved. We wanted to make something we were proud of." We were keenly aware of that, but Raven has a lot of pride in the work it does and so we were not about to just, I'll say 'shit in a box', because that was the expression we used, and then send that out to the stores. "You make a crappy game and then slap a licence on it and hope it sells, was how they were viewed. "Licensed games had a bad reputation," Dan recalls. Nevertheless, the team was determined to make it work.
A print magazine? We're like 'How does that even translate into games?' It was a surprise." If any of us had even heard of it, all we had heard was it was a magazine. Quite honestly, I don't think any of us really knew what to do at first. One day, Brian Raffel came in and told us that Activision had acquired the Soldier Of Fortune licence and that we were going to make a game. "If I recall, Raven were wrapping up Heretic II and were looking at what they were going to do next. Poos leaves two daughters by a previous marriage, Lisa Green of Virginia Beach, Va., and Laura Poos of Hampton, Va.Dan Kramer, who worked on Soldier Of Fortune as assistant programming director, reveals that he and many of his colleagues were bemused when they found out they would be making a game based on a mercenary magazine. Louis in 1957 after studying journalism at Southern Illinois University and working for the Southern Illinoisan newspaper in Carbondale, Ill.Įarlier, as a Marine in Korea, he was among the "Frozen Chosin" who staged a fighting winter retreat in 1951 from the Chosin Reservoir, under attack by Chinese Communist forces who had entered the war on the side of North Korea.īesides his wife, Mr. Poos "was recognized by his peers as one of the few who actually filed copy from where bullets were flying and the blood was dripping."
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Brown.Īs the military magazine's first professional journalist, Brown said, Mr. Poos smuggled out Soviet AK-74 ammunition, the first of that type that the Pentagon had ever seen, according to Soldier of Fortune editor and publisher Robert K. Later, as managing editor of Soldier of Fortune in the 1980s, he wrote about military topics and became involved in a controversy over carrying a sidearm while covering a story in Central America. Poos was a spokesman for the American Railroad Association. Poos was named chief of AP's bureau in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and later was a news editor in Tokyo before returning to the United States, where he spent two years in AP's Washington bureau.Īfter leaving AP in 1970, Mr. Poos as a United Press International reporter in Vietnam, called him "a great friend in a foxhole or a watering hole and a damned fine shoe leather reporter of the old school." Poos himself was wounded in the chest when gunmen attacked a Buddhist pagoda in Danang, where he and other journalists were covering a standoff by anti-government monks. "We figured we could be overrun and wiped out in the next 24 hours," Mr. Poos and AP photographer Henri Huet helped recover and stand guard over wounded GIs. Assigned to the AP's Saigon bureau in 1965, he quickly became noted for aggressive and daring combat reporting.ĭuring the January 1966 battle of An Thi, where US cavalry troops were surrounded by Communist forces, Mr. He had suffered respiratory ailments and a broken hip.Ī Marine during the Korean War, Mr.Poos joined the AP in 1957. Poos died Monday at a hospice in Arlington, Va., said his wife, Bobbie. NEW YORK - Robert Poos, who covered the Vietnam War as a reporter for the Associated Press and later was managing editor of Soldier of Fortune magazine, has died.
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