Elimination game: Who is the best developer?

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15 Gunpei Yokoi

14 Takashi Tezuka

13 Shinji Mikami
13 Eiji Aonuma (+)

12 Masahiro Sakurai (+)

11 Tim Schafer
11 Fumito Ueda
11 Will Wright

10 Yuuji Horii
10 Hirohide Sugiura
10 Hiroshi Iuchi
10 Yasumi Matsuno
10 Yoshinori Kitase
10 Akihiro Hino
10 Koji Igarashi
10 Hideki Kamiya

9 Sid Meier
9 Tetsuya Mizuguchi
9 Rieko Kodama
9 To-ru Iwatani
9 Goichi Suda (+)

8 Yuji Naka

6 Andy Gavin & Jason Rubin (-)
6 Drew Karpyshyn (-)
6 James Ohlen (-)
6 Eiji Kikuchi (-)

5 Martin Hollis (-)

4 Dustin Browder (-)
4 Ron Gilbert
4 Chris Taylor
4 Eugene Jarvis
4 Masaya Kobayashi
4 Brett Sperry & Louis Castle
4 Gregg Mayles
4 Ted Price
4 Jason Jones & Alex Seropian

3 Marc Pacini
3 Ken Levine

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
4. David Jaffe
5. Peter Molyneux
6. Tetsuya Nomura
7. David Crane
8. Hideo Kojima
9. Hironobu Sakaguchi
10. Yu Suzuki
11. Kazunori Yamauchi
12. John Carmack & John Romero
13. Tomohiro Nishikado
14. Roberta Williams
15. Keiji Inafune
16. Michael Morhaime, Allen Adham & Frank Pearce
17. Alexey Pajitnov