Michael Nesmith inheritance from his mother's Liquid Paper fortune in 1980 eased those concerns. In a 1980 interview with "Playboy", he said of that time: "I had to start telling little tales to the tax man while they were putting tags on the furniture." While Nesmith had continued to produce his compositions with the Monkees, he withheld many of the songs from the final Monkees albums, only to release them on his post-Monkees solo records. Nesmith did not participate in the Monkees' 20th-anniversary reunion. However, he did appear during an encore with the other three members at the Greek Theatre on September
Bruce Nesmith Beyond Tyr" (1995), "Psionic Artifacts of Athas" (1996), and "Domains of Dread" (1997). Nesmith was one of the guests of honor at "Winter Fantasy 18" in 1994. In 1995 Nesmith moved into the computer game field, contributing to "" computer roleplaying game, and "Terminator" computer games. He then became a senior game designer for Bethesda Game Studios, where he worked extensively on "" and its expansion, "The Shivering Isles". The video game "Fallout 3", for which Nesmith did some of the quest writing, was nominated for an award for videogame writing at the Writers Guild of America Awards 2008. Bruce