bypass surgery. It wasn't that he had another heart attack, his heart just wore out." The Chicago Tribune quoted Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic and author Stephen Hunter as saying, "When he published The Hunt for Red October, he redefined and expanded the genre, and as a consequence of that, many people were able to publish such books who had previously been unable to do so." On March 31, 2014, the Orioles honored Clancy with a video tribute during their home opener, and the team wore a tribute patch on their jerseys through the season. Achievements and awards Clancy was one of only three authors to sell two million copies on a first printing in the 1990s (the others were John Grisham and J. K. Rowling). Clancy's novel Clear and Present Danger (1989) sold 1,625,544 hardcover copies, making it the #1 bestselling novel of the 1980s. Clancy received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement in 1988. Clancy was the Host of the 1995 Achievement Summit in Colonial Williamsburg and the 1997 Achievement Summit in Baltimore. Clancy received an honorary doctorate in humane letters and delivered the commencement address at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1992, and had since worked a reference to the school into many of his main works. Clancy was an honorary Yeoman Warder of the Tower of London and received the title "Supernumerary Yeoman"; he had been arrested for scaling the walls in his younger years. Clancy received the Alfred Thayer Mahan Award for Literary Achievement from the Navy League of the United States in 1990. Works Film, TV and video game adaptations Films Short films Ghost Recon: Alpha Ghost Recon Wildlands: War Within the Cartel Television series Video games Officially licensed games based on The Hunt for Red October and Red Storm Rising were released in the late 1980s and early 1990s for various 8-bit home computers such as the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum. Those included a submarine combat simulation (based on the book) and an action game (based on the film). More recently, Ubisoft has made many video game series based on Tom Clancy's books or were endorsed by Clancy with his name on the series. References Further reading Baiocco, Richard ed. Readings on Tom Clancy (2003), a guide to Clancy Greenberg, Martin. H. The Tom Clancy Companion (1992) excerpt; also online free to borrow Keene, Ann T. "Clancy, Tom (12 April