Runaway: A Road Adventure badly at all" in the United States, where its lifetime sales at brick-and-mortar retailers totaled 12,928 units by the end of that month. Chris Kellner of German publisher DTP Entertainment declared "Runaway" "a huge success" in Germany. By late 2003, it had surpassed the sales of any other adventure localized by DTP; as of March 2003, it had spent six months on Germany's computer game sales charts. According to the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce's "Hamburger Wirtschaft" magazine, "Runaway" it ultimately sold 60,000 units in Germany and helped to revive the country's adventure game industry. It remained DTP's best-selling adventure release
Yvonne du Fresne Yvonne du Fresne Yvonne Donna du Fresne (30 September 1929 – 13 March 2011) was a New Zealand writer of Danish descent. She was born in Takaka and grew up in a Danish-French Huguenot settlement in the Manawatu District on the North Island. She trained as a teacher in Christchurch and taught primary school. Du Fresne was first published in the 1950s. In 1980, she published a collection of short stories "Farvel and other stories" which received the PEN best first book award. She wrote three radio plays: "The Spring", "The Ship" and "A Little Talk About Our Winter District",