Elimination game: Who is the best developer?

[Words Of Wisdom]

12 Gunpei Yokoi
12 Takashi Tezuka

11 Sid Meier (---)
11 Goichi Suda (-)
11 Fumito Ueda (-)
11 Koji Igarashi (-)
11 Shinji Mikami
11 Yuuji Horii
11 Tetsuya Mizuguchi
11 Akihiro Hino
11 Will Wright
11 Michael Morhaime, Allen Adham & Frank Pearce


10 Eiji Aonuma
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 Ken Levine
9 Eugene Jarvis
9 Yuji Naka
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
8 Ted Price

7 Tomohiro Nishikado
7 Kazunori Yamauchi
7 John Carmack & John Romero
7 Hideki Kamiya
7 Gregg Mayles

6 Brett Sperry & Louis Castle (+)
6 Chris Taylor (+)
6 Ron Gilbert (+)

5 Yu Suzuki


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