15 Gunpei Yokoi (-)

14 Eiji Aonuma

9 Takashi Tezuka (-)

4 Masahiro Sakurai(+)


NEW RULES: Add 1 point to a developer, deduct 1 point from two different developers.
3 votes per day, you CAN NOT use all your votes at once.
Now that there are only 5 developers left, only single votes will be allowed. 3 votes per day with at least 1 hour between each individual vote.
Copy and paste the list and these rules with your changes in each post.

Eliminated:

1. Jane Jensen
2. Tomonobu Itagaki
3. Gabe Newell
4. David Jaffe
5. Peter Molyneux
6. Tetsuya Nomura
7. David Crane
8. Hideo Kojima
9. Hironobu Sakaguchi
10. Yu Suzuki
11. Kazunori Yamauchi
12. John Carmack & John Romero
13. Tomohiro Nishikado
14. Roberta Williams
15. Keiji Inafune
16. Michael Morhaime, Allen Adham & Frank Pearce
17. Alexey Pajitnov
18. Ken Levine
19. Marc Pacini
20. Cid Meier
21. Martin Hollis
22. Ted Price
23. Masaya Kobayashi
24. Brett Sperry & Louis Castle
25. Gregg Mayles
26. Jason Jones & Alex Seropian
27. Dustin Browder
28. Ron Gilbert
29. Eugene Jarvis
30. Andy Gavin & Jason Rubin
31. Tim Schafer
32. Chris Taylor
33. Drew Karpyshyn
34. James Ohlen
35. Hiroshi Iuchi
36. Eiji Kikuchi
37. Will Wright
38. To-ru Iwatani
39. Yuji Naka
40. Rieko Kodama
41. Koji Igarashi
42. Yasumi Matsuno
43. Tetsuya Mizuguchi
44. Hirohide Sugiura
45. Goichi Suda
46. Hideki Kamiya
47. Akihiro Hino
48. Yoshinori Kitas
49. Shinji Mikami
50. Fumito Ueda
51. Yuuji Horii

16 Gunpei Yokoi (+)

14 Eiji Aonuma

8 Takashi Tezuka (-)

3 Masahiro Sakurai (-)


NEW RULES: Add 1 point to a developer, deduct 1 point from two different developers.
3 votes per day, you CAN NOT use all your votes at once.
Now that there are only 5 developers left, only single votes will be allowed. 3 votes per day with at least 1 hour between each individual vote.
Copy and paste the list and these rules with your changes in each post.

Eliminated:

1. Jane Jensen
2. Tomonobu Itagaki
3. Gabe Newell
4. David Jaffe
5. Peter Molyneux
6. Tetsuya Nomura
7. David Crane
8. Hideo Kojima
9. Hironobu Sakaguchi
10. Yu Suzuki
11. Kazunori Yamauchi
12. John Carmack & John Romero
13. Tomohiro Nishikado
14. Roberta Williams
15. Keiji Inafune
16. Michael Morhaime, Allen Adham & Frank Pearce
17. Alexey Pajitnov
18. Ken Levine
19. Marc Pacini
20. Cid Meier
21. Martin Hollis
22. Ted Price
23. Masaya Kobayashi
24. Brett Sperry & Louis Castle
25. Gregg Mayles
26. Jason Jones & Alex Seropian
27. Dustin Browder
28. Ron Gilbert
29. Eugene Jarvis
30. Andy Gavin & Jason Rubin
31. Tim Schafer
32. Chris Taylor
33. Drew Karpyshyn
34. James Ohlen
35. Hiroshi Iuchi
36. Eiji Kikuchi
37. Will Wright
38. To-ru Iwatani
39. Yuji Naka
40. Rieko Kodama
41. Koji Igarashi
42. Yasumi Matsuno
43. Tetsuya Mizuguchi
44. Hirohide Sugiura
45. Goichi Suda
46. Hideki Kamiya
47. Akihiro Hino
48. Yoshinori Kitas
49. Shinji Mikami
50. Fumito Ueda
51. Yuuji Horii

15 Eiji Aonuma (+)
15 Gunpei Yokoi (-)

8 Takashi Tezuka

2 Masahiro Sakurai (-)


NEW RULES: Add 1 point to a developer, deduct 1 point from two different developers.
3 votes per day, you CAN NOT use all your votes at once.
Now that there are only 5 developers left, only single votes will be allowed. 3 votes per day with at least 1 hour between each individual vote.
Copy and paste the list and these rules with your changes in each post.

Eliminated:

1. Jane Jensen
2. Tomonobu Itagaki
3. Gabe Newell
4. David Jaffe
5. Peter Molyneux
6. Tetsuya Nomura
7. David Crane
8. Hideo Kojima
9. Hironobu Sakaguchi
10. Yu Suzuki
11. Kazunori Yamauchi
12. John Carmack & John Romero
13. Tomohiro Nishikado
14. Roberta Williams
15. Keiji Inafune
16. Michael Morhaime, Allen Adham & Frank Pearce
17. Alexey Pajitnov
18. Ken Levine
19. Marc Pacini
20. Cid Meier
21. Martin Hollis
22. Ted Price
23. Masaya Kobayashi
24. Brett Sperry & Louis Castle
25. Gregg Mayles
26. Jason Jones & Alex Seropian
27. Dustin Browder
28. Ron Gilbert
29. Eugene Jarvis
30. Andy Gavin & Jason Rubin
31. Tim Schafer
32. Chris Taylor
33. Drew Karpyshyn
34. James Ohlen
35. Hiroshi Iuchi
36. Eiji Kikuchi
37. Will Wright
38. To-ru Iwatani
39. Yuji Naka
40. Rieko Kodama
41. Koji Igarashi
42. Yasumi Matsuno
43. Tetsuya Mizuguchi
44. Hirohide Sugiura
45. Goichi Suda
46. Hideki Kamiya
47. Akihiro Hino
48. Yoshinori Kitas
49. Shinji Mikami
50. Fumito Ueda
51. Yuuji Horii

15 Gunpei Yokoi (+)
13 Eiji Aonuma (-)
9 Takashi Tezuka
1 Masahiro Sakurai (-)


NEW RULES: Add 1 point to a developer, deduct 1 point from two different developers.
3 votes per day, you CAN NOT use all your votes at once.
Now that there are only 5 developers left, only single votes will be allowed. 3 votes per day with at least 1 hour between each individual vote.
Copy and paste the list and these rules with your changes in each post.

Eliminated:

1. Jane Jensen
2. Tomonobu Itagaki
3. Gabe Newell
4. David Jaffe
5. Peter Molyneux
6. Tetsuya Nomura
7. David Crane
8. Hideo Kojima
9. Hironobu Sakaguchi
10. Yu Suzuki
11. Kazunori Yamauchi
12. John Carmack & John Romero
13. Tomohiro Nishikado
14. Roberta Williams
15. Keiji Inafune
16. Michael Morhaime, Allen Adham & Frank Pearce
17. Alexey Pajitnov
18. Ken Levine
19. Marc Pacini
20. Cid Meier
21. Martin Hollis
22. Ted Price
23. Masaya Kobayashi
24. Brett Sperry & Louis Castle
25. Gregg Mayles
26. Jason Jones & Alex Seropian
27. Dustin Browder
28. Ron Gilbert
29. Eugene Jarvis
30. Andy Gavin & Jason Rubin
31. Tim Schafer
32. Chris Taylor
33. Drew Karpyshyn
34. James Ohlen
35. Hiroshi Iuchi
36. Eiji Kikuchi
37. Will Wright
38. To-ru Iwatani
39. Yuji Naka
40. Rieko Kodama
41. Koji Igarashi
42. Yasumi Matsuno
43. Tetsuya Mizuguchi
44. Hirohide Sugiura
45. Goichi Suda
46. Hideki Kamiya
47. Akihiro Hino
48. Yoshinori Kitas
49. Shinji Mikami
50. Fumito Ueda
51. Yuuji Horii

15 Gunpei Yokoi (+)
12 Eiji Aonuma
9 Takashi Tezuka (-)
0 Masahiro Sakurai (-)


NEW RULES: Add 1 point to a developer, deduct 1 point from two different developers.
3 votes per day, you CAN NOT use all your votes at once.
Now that there are only 5 developers left, only single votes will be allowed. 3 votes per day with at least 1 hour between each individual vote.
Copy and paste the list and these rules with your changes in each post.

Eliminated:

1. Jane Jensen
2. Tomonobu Itagaki
3. Gabe Newell
4. David Jaffe
5. Peter Molyneux
6. Tetsuya Nomura
7. David Crane
8. Hideo Kojima
9. Hironobu Sakaguchi
10. Yu Suzuki
11. Kazunori Yamauchi
12. John Carmack & John Romero
13. Tomohiro Nishikado
14. Roberta Williams
15. Keiji Inafune
16. Michael Morhaime, Allen Adham & Frank Pearce
17. Alexey Pajitnov
18. Ken Levine
19. Marc Pacini
20. Cid Meier
21. Martin Hollis
22. Ted Price
23. Masaya Kobayashi
24. Brett Sperry & Louis Castle
25. Gregg Mayles
26. Jason Jones & Alex Seropian
27. Dustin Browder
28. Ron Gilbert
29. Eugene Jarvis
30. Andy Gavin & Jason Rubin
31. Tim Schafer
32. Chris Taylor
33. Drew Karpyshyn
34. James Ohlen
35. Hiroshi Iuchi
36. Eiji Kikuchi
37. Will Wright
38. To-ru Iwatani
39. Yuji Naka
40. Rieko Kodama
41. Koji Igarashi
42. Yasumi Matsuno
43. Tetsuya Mizuguchi
44. Hirohide Sugiura
45. Goichi Suda
46. Hideki Kamiya
47. Akihiro Hino
48. Yoshinori Kitas
49. Shinji Mikami
50. Fumito Ueda
51. Yuuji Horii
52. Masahiro Sakurai

16 Gunpei Yokoi (+)
10 Eiji Aonuma (-)
9 Takashi Tezuka (-)


NEW RULES: Add 1 point to a developer, deduct 1 point from two different developers.
3 votes per day, you CAN NOT use all your votes at once.
Now that there are only 5 developers left, only single votes will be allowed. 3 votes per day with at least 1 hour between each individual vote.
Copy and paste the list and these rules with your changes in each post.

Eliminated:

1. Jane Jensen
2. Tomonobu Itagaki
3. Gabe Newell
4. David Jaffe
5. Peter Molyneux
6. Tetsuya Nomura
7. David Crane
8. Hideo Kojima
9. Hironobu Sakaguchi
10. Yu Suzuki
11. Kazunori Yamauchi
12. John Carmack & John Romero
13. Tomohiro Nishikado
14. Roberta Williams
15. Keiji Inafune
16. Michael Morhaime, Allen Adham & Frank Pearce
17. Alexey Pajitnov
18. Ken Levine
19. Marc Pacini
20. Cid Meier
21. Martin Hollis
22. Ted Price
23. Masaya Kobayashi
24. Brett Sperry & Louis Castle
25. Gregg Mayles
26. Jason Jones & Alex Seropian
27. Dustin Browder
28. Ron Gilbert
29. Eugene Jarvis
30. Andy Gavin & Jason Rubin
31. Tim Schafer
32. Chris Taylor
33. Drew Karpyshyn
34. James Ohlen
35. Hiroshi Iuchi
36. Eiji Kikuchi
37. Will Wright
38. To-ru Iwatani
39. Yuji Naka
40. Rieko Kodama
41. Koji Igarashi
42. Yasumi Matsuno
43. Tetsuya Mizuguchi
44. Hirohide Sugiura
45. Goichi Suda
46. Hideki Kamiya
47. Akihiro Hino
48. Yoshinori Kitase
49. Shinji Mikami
50. Fumito Ueda
51. Yuuji Horii
52. Masahiro Sakurai

 I'm not sure whether to take your words at face value or with a grain of salt. It makes sense and is very reasonable... but you include a smilie at the end. So confusing!

 And it looks like Mr. Yokoi is going to win. Victory! Although, I'm disappointed that I have to deduct points from my good friend Aonuma. =/

 17 Gunpei Yokoi (+)
9 Eiji Aonuma (-)
8 Takashi Tezuka (-)


NEW RULES: Add 1 point to a developer, deduct 1 point from two different developers.
3 votes per day, you CAN NOT use all your votes at once.
Now that there are only 5 developers left, only single votes will be allowed. 3 votes per day with at least 1 hour between each individual vote.
Copy and paste the list and these rules with your changes in each post.

Eliminated:

1. Jane Jensen
2. Tomonobu Itagaki
3. Gabe Newell
4. David Jaffe
5. Peter Molyneux
6. Tetsuya Nomura
7. David Crane
8. Hideo Kojima
9. Hironobu Sakaguchi
10. Yu Suzuki
11. Kazunori Yamauchi
12. John Carmack & John Romero
13. Tomohiro Nishikado
14. Roberta Williams
15. Keiji Inafune
16. Michael Morhaime, Allen Adham & Frank Pearce
17. Alexey Pajitnov
18. Ken Levine
19. Marc Pacini
20. Cid Meier
21. Martin Hollis
22. Ted Price
23. Masaya Kobayashi
24. Brett Sperry & Louis Castle
25. Gregg Mayles
26. Jason Jones & Alex Seropian
27. Dustin Browder
28. Ron Gilbert
29. Eugene Jarvis
30. Andy Gavin & Jason Rubin
31. Tim Schafer
32. Chris Taylor
33. Drew Karpyshyn
34. James Ohlen
35. Hiroshi Iuchi
36. Eiji Kikuchi
37. Will Wright
38. To-ru Iwatani
39. Yuji Naka
40. Rieko Kodama
41. Koji Igarashi
42. Yasumi Matsuno
43. Tetsuya Mizuguchi
44. Hirohide Sugiura
45. Goichi Suda
46. Hideki Kamiya
47. Akihiro Hino
48. Yoshinori Kitase
49. Shinji Mikami
50. Fumito Ueda
51. Yuuji Horii
52. Masahiro Sakurai

Damn, I drove home to Los Angeles today and missed out when all the Ocarina fans came in here and scared me. Nice to see they were taken care of.




18 Gunpei Yokoi (+)
8 Eiji Aonuma (-)
7 Takashi Tezuka (-)


NEW RULES: Add 1 point to a developer, deduct 1 point from two different developers.
3 votes per day, you CAN NOT use all your votes at once.
Now that there are only 5 developers left, only single votes will be allowed. 3 votes per day with at least 1 hour between each individual vote.
Copy and paste the list and these rules with your changes in each post.

Eliminated:

1. Jane Jensen
2. Tomonobu Itagaki
3. Gabe Newell
4. David Jaffe
5. Peter Molyneux
6. Tetsuya Nomura
7. David Crane
8. Hideo Kojima
9. Hironobu Sakaguchi
10. Yu Suzuki
11. Kazunori Yamauchi
12. John Carmack & John Romero
13. Tomohiro Nishikado
14. Roberta Williams
15. Keiji Inafune
16. Michael Morhaime, Allen Adham & Frank Pearce
17. Alexey Pajitnov
18. Ken Levine
19. Marc Pacini
20. Cid Meier
21. Martin Hollis
22. Ted Price
23. Masaya Kobayashi
24. Brett Sperry & Louis Castle
25. Gregg Mayles
26. Jason Jones & Alex Seropian
27. Dustin Browder
28. Ron Gilbert
29. Eugene Jarvis
30. Andy Gavin & Jason Rubin
31. Tim Schafer
32. Chris Taylor
33. Drew Karpyshyn
34. James Ohlen
35. Hiroshi Iuchi
36. Eiji Kikuchi
37. Will Wright
38. To-ru Iwatani
39. Yuji Naka
40. Rieko Kodama
41. Koji Igarashi
42. Yasumi Matsuno
43. Tetsuya Mizuguchi
44. Hirohide Sugiura
45. Goichi Suda
46. Hideki Kamiya
47. Akihiro Hino
48. Yoshinori Kitase
49. Shinji Mikami
50. Fumito Ueda
51. Yuuji Horii
52. Masahiro Sakurai

I'm not even changing the plus/minus markers. Just changing the numbers one point in their respective directions. This is getting pointless hahaha.

Anyhow, I feel like offering an explanation of my unwavering support for Mr. Gunpei Yokoi. Not only is Mr. Yokoi responsible for work on many wonderful Nintendo franchises, but he is the biggest reason the Metroid series went the way it did, and he is basically the reason Nintendo became so big in the videogame market, since he headed the Game and Watch series, which is arguably the predecessor to the NES. Additionally, Yokoi invented the GameBoy brand, cementing Nintendo's position as handheld market leader for 20 years running. Lastly, my wife and I put the most gaming hours into our DS's (and we're even looking to purchase a third DS with a game, and asking for a whole mess of additional games for Christmas, which will put the count at 3 DS's and 32 games). If it weren't for Yokoi's invention of the GameBoy, I guarantee that the DS would have never come to be. Especially since he very possibly may have been the person that brainstormed the dual-screened G&W system. It is without a doubt that Yokoi-sama is directly behind Mr. Miyamoto in his extreme level of influence on the gaming world. 

19 Gunpei Yokoi (+)
7 Eiji Aonuma (-)
6 Takashi Tezuka (-)


NEW RULES: Add 1 point to a developer, deduct 1 point from two different developers.
3 votes per day, you CAN NOT use all your votes at once.
Now that there are only 5 developers left, only single votes will be allowed. 3 votes per day with at least 1 hour between each individual vote.
Copy and paste the list and these rules with your changes in each post.

Eliminated:

1. Jane Jensen
2. Tomonobu Itagaki
3. Gabe Newell
4. David Jaffe
5. Peter Molyneux
6. Tetsuya Nomura
7. David Crane
8. Hideo Kojima
9. Hironobu Sakaguchi
10. Yu Suzuki
11. Kazunori Yamauchi
12. John Carmack & John Romero
13. Tomohiro Nishikado
14. Roberta Williams
15. Keiji Inafune
16. Michael Morhaime, Allen Adham & Frank Pearce
17. Alexey Pajitnov
18. Ken Levine
19. Marc Pacini
20. Cid Meier
21. Martin Hollis
22. Ted Price
23. Masaya Kobayashi
24. Brett Sperry & Louis Castle
25. Gregg Mayles
26. Jason Jones & Alex Seropian
27. Dustin Browder
28. Ron Gilbert
29. Eugene Jarvis
30. Andy Gavin & Jason Rubin
31. Tim Schafer
32. Chris Taylor
33. Drew Karpyshyn
34. James Ohlen
35. Hiroshi Iuchi
36. Eiji Kikuchi
37. Will Wright
38. To-ru Iwatani
39. Yuji Naka
40. Rieko Kodama
41. Koji Igarashi
42. Yasumi Matsuno
43. Tetsuya Mizuguchi
44. Hirohide Sugiura
45. Goichi Suda
46. Hideki Kamiya
47. Akihiro Hino
48. Yoshinori Kitase
49. Shinji Mikami
50. Fumito Ueda
51. Yuuji Horii
52. Masahiro Sakurai

Yes.

And to all you anti-Ninty folks out there: You also owe Mr. Yokoi respect for inspiring creation of the GameGear and the PSP, as neither would have been created if the GameBoy hadn't been so wildly popular and influential. Additionally, Yokoi also created the WonderSwan name, which didn't do well here in the West but was still very important to Japanese and Chinese gaming.