Chris Jones (Access Software)

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Chris Jones
Born (1955-03-04) 4 March 1955 (age 69)
Utah, U.S.
Occupation(s)Video game designer, video game producer, actor, writer, businessman
Notable creditTex Murphy

Christopher Jones (born March 4, 1955) is a

CEO, finance professional, and actor. He is best known for a series of interactive movies in which he stars as Tex Murphy, a private investigator who lives in San Francisco
in the middle of the 21st century.

Career

Jones was a founding member of Access Software, along with Bruce Carver and his brother Roger Carver, and remained its CFO until it was sold to Microsoft in 1999.

At Access, Jones served as a finance executive. As the company's output turned toward more story-driven titles, he became more involved in writing, design, and production. He designed and wrote the

Links
golf franchise.

Jones is best recognized by many gamers for the creation and portrayal of

Michael York, Henry Darrow, and June Lockhart
.

After Access was re-christened

, he was the company's Chief Financial Officer until its dissolution in 2006.

Following the dissolution of Indie Built, the company's golf division was spun off into a new company, TruGolf, focusing on high-end golf simulators using real clubs. Jones serves as Finance Executive for TruGolf and, in 2007, founded

Three Cards to Dead Time
(2010), Murder Island: Secret of Tantalus (2011), Escape from Thunder Island (2011), and Rita James and the Race to Shangri La (2012).

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