Elimination game: Who is the best developer?

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14 Sid Meier

12 Gunpei Yokoi
12 Goichi Suda (+)
12 Eiji Aonuma (+)
12 Takashi Tezuka (+)

11 Shinji Mikami
11 Yuuji Horii
11 Tetsuya Mizuguchi
11 Fumito Ueda
11 Koji Igarashi
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 Rieko Kodama
10 Hirohide Sugiura
10 Hiroshi Iuchi
10 To-ru Iwatani
10 Yasumi Matsuno

9 Eugene Jarvis
9 Yuji Naka
9 Gregg Mayles
9 Martin Hollis
9 Marc Pacini
9 Dustin Browder
9 Tim Schafer
9 Andy Gavin & Jason Rubin (-)

8 Ken Levine (-)
8 Roberta Williams (-)
8 Drew Karpyshyn (-)
8 Jason Jones & Alex Seropian (-)
8 James Ohlen (-)
8 Eiji Kikuchi
8 Masaya Kobayashi

7 Tomohiro Nishikado
7 Ted Price
7 Kazunori Yamauchi
7 John Carmack & John Romero
7 Hideki Kamiya

6 Brett Sperry & Louis Castle
6 Chris Taylor
6 Ron Gilbert
6 Yu Suzuki

2 Hironobu Sakaguchi


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
7. David Crane
8. Hideo Kojima