[1] Roger Wilco enabled online gamers to talk to one another through a computer headset or other audio input device instead of typing messages to each other.

Three of the company's four founders were roommates when they were undergraduate students at Princeton University: Adam Frankl, Tony Lovell, and Henri de Marcellus.

The company began publishing pre-release versions of the software in the autumn of 1998;[2]: 16  the first general availability release, Roger Wilco Mark I, followed in May 1999.

[7] David Lewis licensed SDK versions of the voice technology to virtually every major game publisher including Activision, EA, Microsoft, Ubisoft, and others.

[7] That year, a vice president of consumer products at GameSpy Industries told The Boston Globe that Roger Wilco had about 5 million users.