Most powerful and influential celebrity of the past 30 years?

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The Ghost of RubangB said:
Then I'll go with Gunpei Yokoi for creating the D-Pad, which has been on every single gaming system since he invented it, changing the world of gaming forever. And he made the Game Boy, which changed the world of gaming forever. His Beam Gun games helped start the light-gun-carnival game craze, and inspired the Nintendo Zapper. And he created Metroid, which still inspires every Castlevania and and many other games, as well as giving us the first great female protagonist of gaming. And his "Lateral Thinking of Withered Technology" philosophy was not only responsible for the success of the Game Boy (choosing battery life over color), but is now responsible for the success of the DS and the Wii. He is still an inspiration for Miyamoto and Iwata, and as far as I'm concerned his ghost still runs Nintendo.

I'd let Miyamoto, Michael Jorden, Spielberg, Bowie, and Oprah round out the top 6, but I won't put them in order. That's 2 game-related people, 1 athlete, 1 filmmaker, Bowie for helping to create several genres and influencing music, fashion, music videos, music business, and PR, and 1 Oprah to rule them all and in the darkness bind them.

Still, every single thing he did involved gaming. Do you honestly think a gamer influenced the world more than Jordan or Speilberg? On top of that, do you really think any of them even come close to Oprah?

Let's not be silly. Take a step back an realize that while gaming has impacted all of our lives heavily, it's not anywhere near the level (or at least it wasn't pre-Playstation) of many other celebs who drastically changed the way we think about our world.