Editing Will Wright (game designer) (section)

===Hobbies===
In 1980, along with co-driver and race organizer Rick Doherty, Wright participated in the U.S. Express, a cross-country race that was the successor to [[Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash|The Cannonball Run]]. Wright and Doherty drove a specially outfitted [[Mazda RX-7]] from [[Brooklyn]], New York to [[Santa Monica, California]] in 33:39, winning the illegal race. Wright only competed once in the race, which continued until 1983.<ref>[https://www.wired.com/cars/coolwheels/news/2007/10/will_wright Sims Designer Had the Wright Stuff for Street Racing Way Back When] from ''[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]''</ref>

{{quote box | width=25% | align=right | quote=I'm uncollecting. I buy collections on ebay, and I disperse them out to people again. I have to be like an [[entropic]] force to collectors, otherwise all of this stuff will get sorted.<ref name=SPI/>}}

Since 2003, in his spare time, Wright has collected leftovers from the [[Soviet space program]], "including a {{convert|100|lb}} hatch from a space shuttle, a seat from a [[Soyuz spacecraft|Soyuz]] ... control panels from the [[Mir]]",<ref name="SPI">{{cite news| url=https://www.seattlepi.com/entertainment/amp/Sims-creator-is-Livin-Large-1145410.php|title='Sims' creator is Livin' Large |last=Kent|first=Stephen L.|date=May 22, 2001|access-date=November 4, 2021|work=Seattle Post-Intelligencer}}</ref> and the control console of the [[Soyuz 23]],<ref name=YORK/> as well as dolls, dice, and fossils.<ref name=SPI/>

Wright used to build competitive robots for ''[[BattleBots]]'' with his daughter,<ref name="STUDY">{{cite news|url=http://www.gamestudies.org/0102/pearce/|title=Sims, BattleBots, Cellular Automata God and Go|last=Pearce|first=Celia|date=November 5, 2001|access-date=December 18, 2006|work=Game Studies}}</ref> but no longer does. {{As of|2006|11}}, Wright still had remnant bits of machined metal left over from his ''BattleBots'' days strewn about the garage of his home.<ref name=YORK/> Following his work in ''BattleBots'', he has taken steps into the field of human-robot interactions:

{{quote box | quote=We build these robots and we take them down to Berkeley and study the interactions that people have with the robots... We built this newer one that has a rapid-fire pingpong cannon. It will fire about 10 per second. So we give people this plastic bat and we say, "It's set up to play baseball. Do you want to play baseball? It's going to shoot a little ball and you try to hit it." And all of a sudden it's like da-da-da-da, and it's pelting them with balls.<ref name=SPI/>}}

Wright was a former ''[[Robot Wars (TV series)|Robot Wars]]'' champion in the Stupid Fun Club, a Berkeley-based robotics workshop.<ref name=SPI/> "Kitty Puff Puff", one of Wright's bots designed with the help of his daughter Cassidy, fought against its opponents by sticking a roll of tape onto its armature and circling around them, encapsulating them and denying them movement. The technique, "cocooning", was eventually banned.<ref name=YORK/>