Mark Greenshields: From Commodore 64 Programmer to Firebrand Games Founder
Mark Greenshields entered the video game industry at a time when there was barely an industry to enter. Home computers […]
Explore the people who helped create video games throughout the history of the industry. Articles examine programmers, designers, directors, producers, artists, composers, writers, and other developers, including their careers, creative contributions, notable games, collaborations, technical achievements, and influence on gaming history.
Mark Greenshields entered the video game industry at a time when there was barely an industry to enter. Home computers […]
When players began searching the countryside of Grand Theft Auto V for clues to one of the game’s many mysteries, […]
At fifteen years old, Joe Booth left school and entered an industry that was itself barely old enough to know […]
Darren Melbourne’s career in video games began when the British industry was still young enough that a handful of people […]
In 1992, Barry Leitch went to Gremlin Graphics in Sheffield with what sounded like an ordinary assignment. Another racing game […]
Paul J. McKee is the kind of video game developer whose work is far more familiar than his name. Across […]
Gary Bracey did not enter the British video game business as a teenage programmer working from a bedroom. He entered […]
The history of video games is filled with developers whose work is far more familiar than their names. Players may […]
Long before video game development became an industry of enormous studios, specialized departments, and development teams numbering in the hundreds, […]
During the late 1980s, some of the most memorable British computer games were being created by remarkably small groups of […]
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, an Ocean Software game often announced itself before the player had reached the […]
In 1983, Simon Butler walked into the offices of Imagine Software in Liverpool expecting to complete a short piece of […]
Warren Lancashire is one of those video game developers whose work is easier to recognize than his name. Across a […]
Go Nagai occupies an unusual place in video game history. He is not primarily remembered as a game designer, programmer, […]
Video game history often remembers companies more easily than people. Enix, Natsume, Sega, and the Famicom all occupy recognizable places […]
Some people in video game history are easy to place. Their names appear repeatedly as programmers, directors, artists, or composers, […]
The history of video games is filled with famous names, designers and programmers whose careers have been reconstructed through interviews, […]
In the closing credits of Japanese video games from the 1980s and 1990s, the people responsible for creating some of […]
For many of the people who built video games during the 1980s and early 1990s, history survives not in interviews, […]
Hidenobu Takahashi is one of those game developers whose influence becomes much clearer when the credits are followed across an […]
Some video game developers become historical figures through interviews, photographs, convention appearances, and decades of public discussion about their work. […]
For many of the people who built video games during the late 1980s, the surviving historical record can be frustratingly […]
For more than three decades, Gregg Mayles occupied an unusual place in video game history. He did not simply spend […]
For a developer who worked on some of the most recognizable games of Rare’s rise, Steve Patrick remains surprisingly difficult […]
Long before Rare became one of the most celebrated game developers in the world, and before Donkey Kong Country, GoldenEye […]
When Kevin Bayliss first walked into the rural English farmhouse where Rare was making video games in the late 1980s, […]
For millions of players, the memory of a Rare game begins with a picture. A snow-covered slope in Slalom. A […]
Paul R. Moriarity spent more than four decades in gaming, but much of his career unfolded behind the machines and […]
Scott Tsumura spent much of his career behind the names that appeared more prominently on arcade cabinets, cartridges, and corporate […]
Video game history often remembers the people closest to the screen. Programmers, artists, composers, and directors leave behind games that […]