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
11 Ken Levine (+++)

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 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

5 Brett Sperry & Louis Castle (-)
5 Chris Taylor (-)
5 Ron Gilbert (-)
5 Yu Suzuki (-)

0 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
9. Hironobu Sakaguchi