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itagaki

Yeah, where's Tomonobu Itagaki? Ninja Gaiden was damn fun..

 

[shpankey]

You forgot Jason Jones. He's the lead programmer for Bungie and is the main reason Bungie games all rock. He also created the Myth series and is a person I look up to on many levels. I believe him to be the greatest game designer in the history of games and is also the most underrated, in this world where kids worship all the wrong game designers for all the wrong reasons.

 

[rastex]

Bill Budge

I work with this guy, he's very cool!

 

[Date of Lies]

thank you for your contribution

 

[Docpan]

A no-brainer.

Even a non fanboy has to admit that Miyamoto is the most important and original game designer of all time.

 

[Kobun Heat]

Who are some of these people?

 

[Prine]

How on earth can you put fatty Dyack and miss out my man Itagaki

Itagaki needs to be on that list, Kojima himself tried to get Itagaki to make ZOE2!

 

[Syckx]

I see a disgusting lack of Itagaki.

 

[MetaKnight]

The list is too inclusive.

 

[DopeyFish]

jason jones! jason jones! argh!

(of bungie, of course)

 

[xsarien]

I sense a lack of early PC gaming love around here...

David Lebling (Zork)
Graeme Devine (The 7th Guest)
Ken Williams (Founder, Sierra On-Line)
Mark Blank (Zork)
Mark Crowe (Space Quest)
Rob Landeros (The 7th Guest)
Scott Murphy (Space Quest)

 

[ironichaos]

Some of Nintendo's current and past greats...

Eiji Aonuma (Nintendo EAD)
Shigesato Itoi (HAL Laboratory - Ape)
Shigeru Miyamoto (Nintendo EAD)
Yoshio Sakamoto (Nintendo R&D1)
Masahiro Sakurai (HAL Laboratory)
Takashi Tezuka (Nintendo EAD)
Genyo Takeda (Nintendo R&D3)
Masayuki Uemura (Nintendo R&D2)
Gunpei Yokoi (Nintendo R&D1)

 

[Date of Lies]

I'll update the list and I dont know why Itagaki isn't on there. I thought I put him there from the beginning.

 

[Wario64]

Why is Dyack up there? I'm bashing, btw.

.

 

[Date of Lies]

I can't edit my list.

7th Update

Akira Yamaoka (Konami)
Al Alcorn
Alan Miller (Activision)
Alexei Pajitnov (Tetris)
Al Lowe (Sierra)
Barry Murry
Bill Budge
Bob Brown
Bob Whitehead (Activision)
Brian Reynolds (Big Huge Games)
Chris Crawford (Atari)
Chris Miller (Blizzard)
Chris Roberts (Point of No Return Entertainment)
Dave Murry
Dave Theurer (Atari)
David Crane (Activision)
David Jones (Realtime Worlds)
David Perry (Shiny)
Denis Dyack (Silicon Knights)
Don Woods
Doug Church (Harmonix)
Douglas Neubauer (Atari)
Doug Smith
Ed Boon (Midway)
Ed Logg (Atari)
Ed Rotberg (Atari)
Eiji Aonuma (Nintendo)
Eugene Jarvis
Fumito Ueda (Sony)
Gabe Newell
George Broussard (3D Realms)
Greg Zeschuk (BioWare)
Gunpei Yakoi (Nintendo)
Hideo Kojima (Konami)
Hideki Kamiya (Capcom)
Hironobu Sakaguchi (Squaresoft)
Howard Scott Warshaw (Atari)
Jason Jones (Bungie)
Jason Rubin (Sony)
Jeff Minter (Llamasoft)
John Carmack (id Software)
John Romero (Id Software)
John Tobias (Midway)
Jordan Mechner
Kazunori Yamauchi (Sony)
Ken Williams
Koji Igarashi (Konami)
Larry Kaplan (Activision)
Masaya Matsuura (Sony)
Mark Cerny (Cerny Games)
Mark Turmell (EA)
Martin Hollis (Rare)
Nolan Bushnell (Atari)
Owen Rubin (Atari)
Peter Molyneux (LionHead)
Ralph Baer (Sanders Associates, Magnavox)
Rand Miller
Ray Muzyka (Bioware)
Richard Gariott (Ultima series)
Rieko Kodama (Sega)
Roberta Williams (Sierra)
Rob Fulop (Imagic)
Robyn Miller
Ron Gilbert (Hulabee Entertainment)
Ron Miller (Blizzard)
Shigeru Miyamoto (Nintendo)
Shinji Mikami (Capcom)
Sid Meier (Firaxis)
Steve Jobs (Atari/Apple Computer)
Steve Wozniak (Atari/Apple Computer)
Tetsuya Mizuguchi (Sega)
Tetsuya Nomura (Square Enix)
Tim Schafer (LucasArts)
Toby Gard (Confounding Factor)
Tod Frye (Atari)
Tomohiro Nishikado
Tomonobu Itagaki (Tecmo)
Tom Zito (Digital Pictures)
Toru Iwatani (Namco)
Toshiro Nagoshi (Sega)
Trip Hawkins (Electronic Arts and 3DO)
Warren Robinett (Atari)
Warren Spector (Ion Storm)
William Crowther
Will Wright (Maxis)
Yasumi Matsuno (Square Enix)
Yoot Saito (Nintendo)
Yoshiki Okamoto (Capcom)
Yuji Naka (Sega)
Yuji Horii (Enix)
Yu Suzuki (Sega)

I'm on a apple laptop with no mouse so I dont feel like putting them in order right now.


Shigesato Itoi (HAL Laboratory - Ape)
Yoshio Sakamoto (Nintendo R&D1)
Masahiro Sakurai (HAL Laboratory)
Takashi Tezuka (Nintendo EAD)
Genyo Takeda (Nintendo R&D3)
Masayuki Uemura (Nintendo R&D2)

David Lebling (Zork)
Graeme Devine (The 7th Guest)
Mark Blank (Zork)
Mark Crowe (Space Quest)
Rob Landeros (The 7th Guest)
Scott Murphy (Space Quest)


Thanks for those infocom, sierra and nintendo people.

 

[Late Stage Marxist]

Gabe Newell and Denis Dyack are pretty popular.

 

[Wario64]

Kinda off topic, but in the new XBN, Akira Yamaoka thought D2 was Halo. lol

 

[xsarien]

Graeme Devine and Rob Landeros made The 7th Guest/11th Hour while at their own production studio, Trilobyte. They were both published by Virgin.

(Yeah, being pretty anal.)

 

[element]

Some of Nintendo's current and past greats...

Eiji Aonuma (Nintendo EAD)
Shigesato Itoi (HAL Laboratory - Ape)
Shigeru Miyamoto (Nintendo EAD)
Yoshio Sakamoto (Nintendo R&D1)
Masahiro Sakurai (HAL Laboratory)
Takashi Tezuka (Nintendo EAD)
Genyo Takeda (Nintendo R&D3)
Masayuki Uemura (Nintendo R&D2)
Gunpei Yokoi (Nintendo R&D1)

why don't you just go ahead and list ever designer Nintendo has ever had :rolleyes

 

[Mooreberg]

Ken Levine of Irrational Games

worked on -

Thief - The Dark Project
System Shock 2
Freedom Force

And Tribes Vengeance comes out this fall. That's already better than Dyack.