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.
Some video game developers become public personalities. Their careers are preserved through interviews, convention appearances, memoirs, photographs, and decades of […]
Thinking Rabbit was never one of the largest companies in the Japanese video game industry. It did not have the […]
There are video games whose influence can be measured by sequels, sales, or the size of the company that produced […]
For most players who encountered Kenzou Kumei, his name appeared for only a few seconds. At the end of 8 […]
Some video game developers leave behind interviews, photographs, convention appearances, and decades of public commentary about their work. Kanji Inomata […]
Rob Holmes entered the reborn American console industry with a return ticket in his pocket. When Holmes joined Gregory Fischbach […]
There are video game designers remembered for a single masterpiece, others for a franchise, and a much smaller group whose […]
Before Final Fantasy became one of the largest names in video game history, before Square was associated with sprawling role-playing […]
Few companies illustrate the volatility of video game history better than Square. It began as a small software operation attached […]
Nobuo Uematsu entered the video game industry at a moment when there was barely an industry for a composer to […]
Few people have shaped the history of Japanese role-playing games as completely as Hironobu Sakaguchi. His career stretches from the […]
Yoshiki Okamoto’s career can be traced across several of the most important changes in video game history. He entered the […]
The names attached to classic arcade games are often remembered unevenly. Designers and programmers became the public faces of many […]
In the middle of the 1980s, an arcade could overwhelm the senses. Cabinets flashed from every direction, joysticks clicked against […]
Some of the most recognizable sounds of the American arcade boom came from people whose names were rarely noticed by […]
The history of video games is often told through programmers, artists, designers, and composers. Arcade games, however, were never only […]
Some of the most recognizable memories of the classic arcade era are sounds. The electronic roar of an approaching threat, […]
For much of video game history, programmers rarely became the public faces of the games they helped create. Their names […]
Long before Sam Comstock was drawing and animating graphics for some of Atari’s most important arcade games, he was helping […]
Long before Will Noble helped animate paperboys, skateboarders, fantasy warriors, robots, and futuristic racing machines, he was drawing with sidewalk […]
The history of Atari’s arcade division is usually told through famous games and a handful of celebrated designers. Tempest brings […]
John Salwitz spent much of the formative arcade era working inside one of the most important game-development environments in the […]
The names attached to the great arcade games of the 1980s are not always the names players remember. Cabinets were […]