Fable lead Peter Molyneux was so excited about selling his first game that he cut a hole in his mailbox so all the orders would fit – it sold 2 copies and "one was almost certainly from my mum"

Fable.

Once upon a time, Peter Molyneux was one of the most famous – or, perhaps, infamous – game developers in the industry. Many of the games he designed, including the likes of Populous, Black & White, and Fable, were beloved, but at the same time Molyneux developed a controversial reputation for making impossible promises about the experiences his games would deliver. It seems his self-confidence goes back to well before he had established his name.

"I always dreamt of being an entrepreneur," as Molyneux tells Edge magazine in issue #416. With that in mind, at the age of 24 he set up a business called Vulcan Computing, with the "disastrous" idea of selling floppy disks to schools with "some free educational software" he'd created. "We couldn't get the floppy disks cheap enough," Molyneux recalls, so that idea ended in failure.