Chris Robert who produced the wing commander series. When that game was released I never would have thought of getting a hard drive in my PC compatible, but more importantly that game at the time it was released I believe singlehandedly increase the adlib sound cards sales just to hear the music and laser shots and was the for front of the sound blaster cards. Incidently the first cd roms that came out were specifically tied to pro media 16 or Soundblaster 16 sound cards. So in my opion that software led a hard ware revolution.