John Wilbur 'Wild Bill' Stealey Sr. (born 1947) is a retired United States Air Force Lt. Colonel and Command Pilot and is currently CEO of iEntertainment Network. He is also an Air Force Academy Graduate. 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1947 calendar). ... The United States Air Force (USAF) is the aerial warfare branch of the United States armed forces and one of the seven uniformed services. ... Lieutenant Colonel of the United States Army and Air Force Lieutenant Colonel of the United States Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel is a rank of the United States armed forces which is currently used by the United States Army, United States Air Force and United States Marine Corps. ... For other uses, see Aviator (disambiguation). ... Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is the job of having the ultimate executive responsibility or authority within an organization or corporation. ... iEntertainment Network is an online gaming company which operates IamGame, Warbirds, Savage Eden, Helbreath, Khan: The Absolute Power, and the The Legend of Mir 3. ...

Stealey founded MicroProse together with Sid Meier in 1982, at a time when he was a Major. Stealey was the marketing guy, financier, and one of the most enthusiatic game testers in the game industry.^{[citation needed]} Stealey and Meier produced over 400 games and including F-15 Strike Eagle, Pirates!, Railroad Tycoon, Civilization, Silent Service, Gunship, and more. Stealey ran the company until it was sold to Spectrum Holobyte in 1993. MicroProse Software, Inc. ... Sidney K. Meier (born 1954 in Detroit, Michigan) is a renowned American programmer and designer of some of the most commercially and critically successful computer strategy games of all time. ... 1982 1982 in games 1981 in video gaming 1983 in video gaming Notable events of 1982 in computer and video games. ... Major is a military rank the use of which varies according to country. ... The role of the game tester in game development primarily involves analyzing video and/or computer games to document software defects as part of a quality control process. ... F-15 Strike Eagle is an F-15 Strike Eagle combat flight simulator released in 1985 by MicroProse and is the first in the first in the F-15 Strike Eagle series comprising also of the sequels F-15 Strike Eagle II and F-15 Strike Eagle III. Fly an... This article is about the videogame released in 1987. ... Screenshot from Railroad Tycoon Railroad Tycoon is an economic simulation and computer strategy game. ... The Civilization series is a series of turn-based strategy games from Sid Meier. ... Silent Service is an early submarine simulator computer game, designed by Sid Meier and first published in 1985 by MicroProse for various 8-bit home computers, and in 1987 for 16-bit systems like the Commodore Amiga. ... Gunship is an AH-64 Apache helicopter simulation that was released by Microprose in 1986. ... Spectrum HoloByte, Inc. ...

In 1995 he founded Interactive Magic which later became iEntertainment Network. He left in 1999 and was subsequently asked to return as CEO in 2002. Interactive Magic was a developer and publisher of simulation computer games during the 1990s which was founded by MicroProse co-founder Bill Stealey in 1995 after the buyout of MicroProse by Spectrum Holobyte. ... iEntertainment Network is an online gaming company which operates IamGame, Warbirds, Savage Eden, Helbreath, Khan: The Absolute Power, and the The Legend of Mir 3. ... Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is the job of having the ultimate executive responsibility or authority within an organization or corporation. ...

Since his return IENT has redone the WarBirds Software, won settlements on their Internet Gaming patent, and developed a Military Consulting Division.

Stealey is mostly a marketing and management guy and not a computer specialist. He is good at taking concepts and turning them, with a good development team, into good saleable products.

Stealey is working on a new first person shooter series of games with a famous author expected to be announced in September 2007.

Stealey is an avid pilot and piloted a North American T-28B for over 15 years including a number of years leading the T-28 formations at the Oshkosh Air Shows every July.

Stealey is a graduate United States Air Force Academy in Aeronautical Engineering (1970) and of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with a Masters of Business Administration. At one time, he owned the Baltimore Spirit indoor soccer team. The United States Air Force Academy (USAFA), located immediately north of Colorado Springs in El Paso County, Colorado, United States, (), is an institution for the undergraduate education of officers for the United States Air Force. ... Aerospace engineering is the branch of engineering concerning aircraft, spacecraft and related topics. ... Wharton School Wharton School is the business school of University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ... Master of Business Administration (MBA) is a tertiary degree in business management. ... The name Baltimore Blast has been used by two different indoor soccer teams. ... An indoor soccer game in Mexico. ...

External links

• Bill Stealey's profile at MobyGames
• Military.com's profile
• Bill Stealey at iEntertainment Network