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Adventure Classic Gaming

Scott Murphy, the co-creator of the Space Quest series has stated that the review he gave to Adventure Classic Gaming was "very therapeutic to him".

Carla Meninsky

Along with Carol Shaw (creator of 3-D Tic-Tac-Toe and River Raid), Meninsky was one of two female engineers at Atari to develop video game cartridges released in the early 1980s.

David W. Bradley

David W. Bradley is a video game designer and programmer, most notable for the role-playing video games Wizardry 7 and Wizards & Warriors, and several other titles in the Wizardry series.

Duncan Botwood

He was one of first members of the team and worked closely with Martin Hollis and David Doak.

Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist

Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist is a comic Old West adventure computer game created by Al Lowe (of Leisure Suit Larry fame) and Josh Mandel (of Callahan's Crosstime Saloon fame) and published by Sierra On-Line in 1993.

Sierra Entertainment

While working to finish The Black Cauldron, programmers Mark Crowe and Scott Murphy began to plan for an adventure game of their own.


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Akira Sakuma

Akira Sakuma (さくま あきら; born on July 29, 1952) is a Japanese video game designer best known as the creator of the Momotaro Dentetsu series.

Carla Meninsky

Carla Meninsky was a video game designer during the early years of the Atari 2600 video game console.

Liepa

Peter Liepa, software engineer and former video game designer

Mighty Jill Off

Mighty Jill Off was designed and developed by American video game designer and critic Anna Anthropy, also known as Auntie Pixelante, in 2008.

Mr. Nintendo

Shigeru Miyamoto, Japanese video game designer known for his work with Nintendo

Pokémon: The Electric Tale of Pikachu

Shigeru / Gary Oak - His name in the Japanese version (Shigeru) is named after famed video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto.

Sonobe, Kyoto

It was the home town of the legendary video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto.

Super Dash Novel Rookie of the Year Award

The selection committee for the first five years consisted of science fiction and fantasy author Motoko Arai, anime director, screenwriter, and producer Ryōsuke Takahashi, video game designer Yūji Horii, and Akutagawa Prize-winning author Kazushige Abe.

Tommy Yune

Yune first began in comics with the 1992 cult anthropomorphic series Buster the Amazing Bear and joined Jim Lee at Wildstorm Productions after a number of years as a video game designer.

Whiting, Indiana

Patrick Lucien Price - video game designer and editor; worked on Dungeons & Dragons game.