Elimination game: Who is the best developer?

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12 Gunpei Yokoi
12 Takashi Tezuka
12 Sid Meier
12 Yasumi Matsuno
12 Goichi Suda (+)
12 Shinji Mikami (+)

11 Yuuji Horii
11 Tetsuya Mizuguchi
11 Fumito Ueda
11 Koji Igarashi
11 Eiji Aonuma (+)
11 Akihiro Hino
11 Will Wright
11 Michael Morhaime, Allen Adham & Frank Pearce (-)

10 Alexey Pajitnov (-)
10 Masahiro Sakurai
10 Yoshinori Kitase
10 Keiji Inafune
10 Drew Karpyshyn
10 Hideki Kamiya
10 Rieko Kodama
10 Hirohide Sugiura
10 Hiroshi Iuchi
10 To-ru Iwatani

9 Jason Jones & Alex Seropian (--)
9 James Ohlen (-)
9 Eugene Jarvis (-)
9 Yuji Naka
9 Gregg Mayles
9 Martin Hollis
9 Marc Pacini
9 Dustin Browder
9 Tim Schafer
9 Ken Levine
9 Andy Gavin & Jason Rubin

8 Eiji Kikuchi
8 Tomohiro Nishikado
8 Masaya Kobayashi

7 Ted Price
7 Kazunori Yamauchi
7 John Carmack & John Romero

6 Brett Sperry & Louis Castle
6 David Crane
6 Ron Gilbert
6 Roberta Williams
6 Yu Suzuki
6 Hironobu Sakaguchi

4 Chris Taylor

2 Hideo Kojima

Rules: Add 1 point to a developer, deduct 1 point from two different developers.
3 votes per day, you can use all your votes at once.
Copy and paste the list and these rules with your changes in each post.

Eliminated:

1. Jane Jensen
2. Tomonobu Itagaki
3. Gabe Newell
3. David Jaffe
5. Peter Molyneux
6. Tetsuya Nomura