Eric Goldberg designed Commando, a man-to-man game of tactical combat which also included systems for character creation and skills, published by Simulations Publications, Incorporated (SPI).
[1]: 186 Gelber gave Goldberg and Costikyan his notes and they developed those ideas into a full manuscript for an RPG.
[citation needed] Goldberg started working for West End Games in 1983 as its new Vice President of Research & Development.
[1]: 187 Goldberg designed Tales of the Arabian Nights (1985) for West End, a storytelling board game based on written paragraphs.
[2] In 2019, Goldberg and Raph Koster founded a new company, Playable Worlds, and are currently developing the MMO Stars Reach.