- Bobby Kotick
Robert "Bobby" Kotick, chairman and CEO of American computer game company Activision, Inc., is credited for bringing back a near bankrupt game company (Activision) and transforming it into one of the most successful publishing houses to date. At a time when game companies were laying off droves of employees and closing their doors, with Kotick's lead, Activision grouped together key staff, signed on star developers, … - Shaun Palmer
Shaun Palmer (b. 1968-11-14 in San Diego, California) is a professional mountain biker, snowboarder, and skiier from the United States. In the course of his career he accumulated a significant string of competitive successes and substantial media exposure. Making his home in South Lake Tahoe, Palmer is especially fond of his vintage Cadillac, even to the point of having the marque's logo tattooed onto his body. He is also the proprietor and C.E.O. of Palmer Snowboards, … - David Crane
David Crane (born in Nappanee, Indiana) is a video game designer and programmer. Crane started his programming career at Atari, making games for the Atari 2600. After meeting up with co-worker Alan Miller in a tennis game, Miller discussed with him a plan he had to leave and found a company that would give game designers more recognition. From this meeting, he left Atari in 1979 and co-founded Activision, along with Miller, Jim Levy, Bob Whitehead and Larry Kaplan. - Larry Probst
Larry Probst (Lawrence F. Probst III) was previously the CEO of the world's largest video game publisher, Electronic Arts (EA). He was succeeded by John Riccitiello on April 2, 2007. Probst worked from Johnson & Johnson and later on Clorox before being recruited into the videogame industry through Activision in 1982. In 1984 he joined EA as Vice President for Sales. He is currently the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the company. - Alan Miller
Alan Miller is a pioneering and influential figure in the video game industry. He was an early game designer and programmer for Atari 2600 games who went on to found two large video game developers and publishers. Miller joined Atari in February 1977 and was one of the first four Atari 2600 game designers. His 2600 titles include "Surround", "Hunt & Score", "Hangman" and "Basketball". - Josh Resnick
Josh Resnick is an American video game producer. He is the co-founder of game developer Pandemic Studios. Before founding Pandemic, Josh spent four years at Activision as a Producer. His credits there include Mechwarrior 2 1995, which sold over 1 million copies worldwide, and Dark Reign (1997), a successful RTS game. Josh also led the Strategy division of Activision's product development department, which produced Battlezone (1998. - Larry Kaplan
Larry Kaplan is an American video game designer and programmer. He initially worked at Atari and was responsible for a lot of their sales. Due to the lack of recognition for his work, he left Atari and became one of the five co-founders of Activision. He is best known for his Atari 2600 creation, "Kaboom!". The game was published by Activision in 1981. - Adrian Carmack
Adrian Carmack (born on May 5, 1969) is one of the four founders of id Software, along with Tom Hall, John Romero, and John Carmack (no relation). He had worked there as an artist. He was a major stock owner of id Software until he left the company. Adrian Carmack left id Software in 2005. At the time the press was told he felt he had done all he could do in the gaming field and was planning to pursue his passions of art. - Dustin Browder
Dustin Browder is an employee of Blizzard Entertainment and is the Lead Designer of "StarCraft II". He has worked in the video game industry since 1995 at a variety of companies, including Activision, Electronic Arts, and Simon & Schuster Interactive. He has experience in developing real-time strategy games, most notably as Lead Designer for "Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2" and "Command & Conquer: Generals", … - Matt Harding
Matthew "Matt (Mathias)" Harding (born September 27, 1976) is an American video game developer and Internet celebrity known as Dancing Matt for his viral videos that show him dancing in front of landmarks and street scenes in various international locations. Harding has since achieved notoriety through widespread coverage of his travel exploits in major print and broadcast media outlets. - Steve Cartwright
Steve Cartwright is an American computer and video game designer. He is best known as one of the original Activision game designers credited with suchs hits as "Barnstorming", "Megamania", "Seaquest" and "Hacker". After an 8-year run at Electronic Arts (EA) where Cartwright designed and produced the Tiger Woods products as well as EA's first on-line sports site, he later designed, produced, … - Jim Levy
Jim Levy was initially a music industry executive, but he is known better for his efforts as the founding Chief Executive Officer for Activision. Activision was originally founded on giving their game designers a lot of recognition for their work. It is for this reason that he promoted his game designers like rock stars. Each game's instruction booklet would have a brief biography of the developer, as well as their autograph. - Paul Reiche III
Paul Reiche III (born February 17 1961) is a computer game designer. Reiche is best known for being the co-creator, together with Fred Ford, of the "Star Control" universe. While Reiche did the game design and fiction, Ford was responsible for the programming. Reiche is listed in the credits for Toe Jam and Earl under "Invaluable Help". A childhood friend of early "Dungeons & Dragons" (D&D) artist Erol Otus, Reiche became interested in gaming as a teen. - Russell Lieblich
Russell Lieblich (1953-2005) was a game designer, programmer, and musician who first came to prominence for his music for Activision and Intellivision games, as well as doing the C64 music translation of one of LucasArts first titles, "Ballblazer". He was one of the first to experiment in the realm of music/rhythm-oriented gameplay with a game he designed called "Web Dimension", and then with one of his most loved works, … - David Mullich
David: I was just about to accept a job offer from a large game publisher when I noticed a game producer want ad in the Los Angeles Times, from a small company called ISG. I decided to check them out, and learned that they wanted to develop games for CD-I. I was somewhat familiar with the platform, having been invited to demonstrations at PIMA when I worked at Disney, but wasn't very impressed with it as a game machine. - Brenda Laurel
I am a researcher, teacher, writer and performer. I chair the Graduate Program in Design at California College of Art in San Francisco. I chaired the graduate Media Design Program at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena from 2002 to 2006. I was also a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems Labs (2005-2006). Since 1976, my work has focused on the intersection of culture and technology. - Brad Fregger
Brad Fregger (born May 31 1940 in Billings, Montana) is an American entrepreneur, author and former game producer publisher, and book publisher. Fregger was the producer of Activision's video game "Ghostbusters computer games "Hacker", the Atari", and the Commodore 64 versions of "Pitfall II" and "Shanghai" (the first commercial version of Brodie Lockard's "Mahjong solitaire"), … - Tim Bradstreet
Timothy "Tim" Bradstreet (born February 16, 1967, in Cheverly, Maryland), is an artist and illustrator, best known for his work on comic books (covers and interiors), book covers, movie posters, roleplaying games and trading cards. Bradstreet and wife Missy live in San Diego, California. Bradstreet has been working professionally ever since he graduated high school in 1985. - Bruce Davis
Bruce Davis is an American businessman, currently CEO and chairman of Digimarc Corporation. Formerly the head of Activision, he is known for his role in the development of the video game industry. Davis received a B.S. in accounting and psychology and a M.A. in criminal justice from SUNY Albany. He earned a J.D. at Columbia University, and began his professional career as an intellectual property attorney with the firm of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe in San Francisco, … - James Arnold Taylor
James Arnold Taylor (born July 22, 1969, in Santa Barbara, California) is an American voice actor. He is best known for his voice work in Squaresoft's popular video game, "Final Fantasy X", as the voice of Tidus. He also provided the voice for Ratchet in the second, third,fourth and fifth games in the popular "Ratchet & Clank" video game series from Insomniac Games. - Evan Skolnick
Evan Skolnick is an American writer, editor and producer who has created content in a wide variety of media including newspapers, magazines, comic books, books, websites, CD-ROMs, computer games and video games. He is probably best known as a former Marvel Comics editor and writer due to his involvement in prominent series such as Doctor Strange, Ghost Rider 2099 and New Warriors. He is currently a Producer and Editorial Director for Vicarious Visions, … - Arion Salazar
Arion Salazar (born Arion Gabriel Salazar, 9 August 1970, Oakland, California) is, as of 2006, the bass guitar player for the U.S. band, Third Eye Blind. Salazar is considered to be the most connected with the fans through the internet out of all the band members. He was previously in a Californian band called Fungo Mungo. Salazar also played in a sessions band called Bullmark. While in Bullmark he composed the soundtrack for Activision's video game, Interstate '76. - Gerald Brom
Gerald Brom (born March 9 1965 in Albany, Georgia) is a gothic fantasy artist and illustrator. Born the son of a U.S. Army pilot he spent much of his early years on the move, living in many countries such as Japan and Germany. Brought up as a military dependent he was known by his last name only, and now signs his name as simply Brom. He graduated from high school in Frankfurt, Germany. - Nicky Robinson
Nicky Robinson is a computer game programmer, one of the earliest women to enter the field. Her career spans over twenty years, and extends back into the classic gaming era with such recognized titles as "Star Control" and "Mail Order Monsters", on which she worked with Evan Robinson and renowned game designer Paul Reiche III. She later worked at 3DO as a game programmer. Robinson's work has been published by Electronic Arts, Activision, Accolade, … - Daniel Chisholm
Daniel Chisholm is a video game & film producer and entrepreneur. He has worked in interactive entertainment since the nineties. After working in the United States in the technology industry, he helped grow the internet division of British Telecom. In the game industry, he has worked in capacities of business development, production, and technology development. He has contributed to the blockbuster franchises of such industry leaders as Electronic Arts, Activision, … - Donita Sparks
Donita Sparks (born April 8, 1963, Chicago, Illinois) is a vocalist, guitarist and song-writer in Los Angeles, California. In addition to performing with her eponymously named solo project, she is also the co-founder, along with Suzi Gardner, of punk rock band L7. The band has released six studio albums, one live CD and a greatest hits record. - Michael Thomas Ryan
Michael Ryan (born March 26, 1973) is a developer of video games, and co-founder of Fat Frog Studios. In 1995, he joined Looking Glass Studios as a quality assurance tester for "Flight Unlimited", a flight simulator for DOS. After working as a technical support representative for a couple years, Michael moved over to the design team working as a level designer on "Thief: The Dark Project", the first title in the "Thief Series". - Shannon Gilligan
Shannon Gilligan is an author of interactive fiction and computer games. She graduated from Williams College in 1981 and spent a year abroad at Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan. She published 14 books in the Choose Your Own Adventure series, and is married to its co-founder, R. A. Montgomery. She also writes the History Mystery Series and Our Secret Gang series for children. Over 2 million copies of her books are in print in several languages including English, Italian, … - John Carlsen
Syncopated founder John R. Carlsen has nearly 30 years experience analyzing circuits of computer systems ranging in size from video games to the world's first supercomputer. Early in his career, Mr. Carlsen aided notable video game industry pioneers including Atari , the first successful video game company and former fastest-growing company in the history of American business, and Activision , the first third-party video game software developer. - Mark Voorsanger
Mark Voorsanger is a computer and video game producer, manager and former game programmer. He has managed and directed the development of CD-ROM titles, cartridge-based video games, standard PC titles, full-motion video-based products and other cutting-edge systems. Before founding ToeJam & Earl Productions with Greg Johnson, Voorsanger was a lead programmer for Hasbro's project NEMO, where he helped to develop the first full-motion interactive games for in-home use. - Robert Kotick
- Carl-Henrik Skårstedt
Create action games that challenges minds. - Aaron Cammarata
- Charles Deenen
He started his career back in the middle of the 80s making music for a very large amount of C64 games. He was, and still is, a legend among Commodore 64 owners of that time - Nick Falzon
- Kent Schuelke
Kent Victor Schuelke uses the stage name Kent Cool. As an Iowa college journalist, Schuelke landed a rare interview with legendary actor Cary Grant. When Grant died a few months later, Schuelke sold the piece to Andy Warhol's trendy New York magazine, Interview. Born and raised the son of a car salesman in an Iowa farming village, Kent Cool earned his non de plume in the second grade when he entertained local high schoolers with his energetic acting, dancing and singing. The Jackson Five... - Joe Bonar
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