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18 Gunpei Yokoi (-)
6 Eiji Aonuma (-)
7 Takashi Tezuka (+)


NEW RULES: Add 1 point to a developer, deduct 1 point from two different developers.
3 votes per day, you CAN NOT use all your votes at once.
Now that there are only 5 developers left, only single votes will be allowed. 3 votes per day with at least 1 hour between each individual vote.
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
18. Ken Levine
19. Marc Pacini
20. Cid Meier
21. Martin Hollis
22. Ted Price
23. Masaya Kobayashi
24. Brett Sperry & Louis Castle
25. Gregg Mayles
26. Jason Jones & Alex Seropian
27. Dustin Browder
28. Ron Gilbert
29. Eugene Jarvis
30. Andy Gavin & Jason Rubin
31. Tim Schafer
32. Chris Taylor
33. Drew Karpyshyn
34. James Ohlen
35. Hiroshi Iuchi
36. Eiji Kikuchi
37. Will Wright
38. To-ru Iwatani
39. Yuji Naka
40. Rieko Kodama
41. Koji Igarashi
42. Yasumi Matsuno
43. Tetsuya Mizuguchi
44. Hirohide Sugiura
45. Goichi Suda
46. Hideki Kamiya
47. Akihiro Hino
48. Yoshinori Kitase
49. Shinji Mikami
50. Fumito Ueda
51. Yuuji Horii
52. Masahiro Sakurai



Around the Network

17 Gunpei Yokoi (-)

7 Eiji Aonuma (+)

6 Takashi Tezuka (-)


NEW RULES: Add 1 point to a developer, deduct 1 point from two different developers.
3 votes per day, you CAN NOT use all your votes at once.
Now that there are only 5 developers left, only single votes will be allowed. 3 votes per day with at least 1 hour between each individual vote.
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
18. Ken Levine
19. Marc Pacini
20. Cid Meier
21. Martin Hollis
22. Ted Price
23. Masaya Kobayashi
24. Brett Sperry & Louis Castle
25. Gregg Mayles
26. Jason Jones & Alex Seropian
27. Dustin Browder
28. Ron Gilbert
29. Eugene Jarvis
30. Andy Gavin & Jason Rubin
31. Tim Schafer
32. Chris Taylor
33. Drew Karpyshyn
34. James Ohlen
35. Hiroshi Iuchi
36. Eiji Kikuchi
37. Will Wright
38. To-ru Iwatani
39. Yuji Naka
40. Rieko Kodama
41. Koji Igarashi
42. Yasumi Matsuno
43. Tetsuya Mizuguchi
44. Hirohide Sugiura
45. Goichi Suda
46. Hideki Kamiya
47. Akihiro Hino
48. Yoshinori Kitase
49. Shinji Mikami
50. Fumito Ueda
51. Yuuji Horii
52. Masahiro Sakurai



Darn you guys for forcing me to change the symbols.

18 Gunpei Yokoi (+)

6 Eiji Aonuma (-)

5 Takashi Tezuka (-)


NEW RULES: Add 1 point to a developer, deduct 1 point from two different developers.
3 votes per day, you CAN NOT use all your votes at once.
Now that there are only 5 developers left, only single votes will be allowed. 3 votes per day with at least 1 hour between each individual vote.
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
18. Ken Levine
19. Marc Pacini
20. Cid Meier
21. Martin Hollis
22. Ted Price
23. Masaya Kobayashi
24. Brett Sperry & Louis Castle
25. Gregg Mayles
26. Jason Jones & Alex Seropian
27. Dustin Browder
28. Ron Gilbert
29. Eugene Jarvis
30. Andy Gavin & Jason Rubin
31. Tim Schafer
32. Chris Taylor
33. Drew Karpyshyn
34. James Ohlen
35. Hiroshi Iuchi
36. Eiji Kikuchi
37. Will Wright
38. To-ru Iwatani
39. Yuji Naka
40. Rieko Kodama
41. Koji Igarashi
42. Yasumi Matsuno
43. Tetsuya Mizuguchi
44. Hirohide Sugiura
45. Goichi Suda
46. Hideki Kamiya
47. Akihiro Hino
48. Yoshinori Kitase
49. Shinji Mikami
50. Fumito Ueda
51. Yuuji Horii
52. Masahiro Sakurai



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17 Gunpei Yokol (-)

6 Takashi Tezuka (+)

5 Eiji Aonuma (-)



NEW RULES: Add 1 point to a developer, deduct 1 point from two different developers.
3 votes per day, you CAN NOT use all your votes at once.
Now that there are only 5 developers left, only single votes will be allowed. 3 votes per day with at least 1 hour between each individual vote.
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
18. Ken Levine
19. Marc Pacini
20. Cid Meier
21. Martin Hollis
22. Ted Price
23. Masaya Kobayashi
24. Brett Sperry & Louis Castle
25. Gregg Mayles
26. Jason Jones & Alex Seropian
27. Dustin Browder
28. Ron Gilbert
29. Eugene Jarvis
30. Andy Gavin & Jason Rubin
31. Tim Schafer
32. Chris Taylor
33. Drew Karpyshyn
34. James Ohlen
35. Hiroshi Iuchi
36. Eiji Kikuchi
37. Will Wright
38. To-ru Iwatani
39. Yuji Naka
40. Rieko Kodama
41. Koji Igarashi
42. Yasumi Matsuno
43. Tetsuya Mizuguchi
44. Hirohide Sugiura
45. Goichi Suda
46. Hideki Kamiya
47. Akihiro Hino
48. Yoshinori Kitase
49. Shinji Mikami
50. Fumito Ueda
51. Yuuji Horii
52. Masahiro Sakurai



16 Gunpei Yokol (-)

6 Eiji Aonuma (+)

5 Takashi Tezuka (-)

NEW RULES: Add 1 point to a developer, deduct 1 point from two different developers.
3 votes per day, you CAN NOT use all your votes at once.
Now that there are only 5 developers left, only single votes will be allowed. 3 votes per day with at least 1 hour between each individual vote.
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
18. Ken Levine
19. Marc Pacini
20. Cid Meier
21. Martin Hollis
22. Ted Price
23. Masaya Kobayashi
24. Brett Sperry & Louis Castle
25. Gregg Mayles
26. Jason Jones & Alex Seropian
27. Dustin Browder
28. Ron Gilbert
29. Eugene Jarvis
30. Andy Gavin & Jason Rubin
31. Tim Schafer
32. Chris Taylor
33. Drew Karpyshyn
34. James Ohlen
35. Hiroshi Iuchi
36. Eiji Kikuchi
37. Will Wright
38. To-ru Iwatani
39. Yuji Naka
40. Rieko Kodama
41. Koji Igarashi
42. Yasumi Matsuno
43. Tetsuya Mizuguchi
44. Hirohide Sugiura
45. Goichi Suda
46. Hideki Kamiya
47. Akihiro Hino
48. Yoshinori Kitase
49. Shinji Mikami
50. Fumito Ueda
51. Yuuji Horii
52. Masahiro Sakurai



Around the Network

15 Gunpei Yokol (-)

6 Takashi Tezuka (+)

5 Eiji Aonuma (-)

NEW RULES: Add 1 point to a developer, deduct 1 point from two different developers.
3 votes per day, you CAN NOT use all your votes at once.
Now that there are only 5 developers left, only single votes will be allowed. 3 votes per day with at least 1 hour between each individual vote.
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
18. Ken Levine
19. Marc Pacini
20. Cid Meier
21. Martin Hollis
22. Ted Price
23. Masaya Kobayashi
24. Brett Sperry & Louis Castle
25. Gregg Mayles
26. Jason Jones & Alex Seropian
27. Dustin Browder
28. Ron Gilbert
29. Eugene Jarvis
30. Andy Gavin & Jason Rubin
31. Tim Schafer
32. Chris Taylor
33. Drew Karpyshyn
34. James Ohlen
35. Hiroshi Iuchi
36. Eiji Kikuchi
37. Will Wright
38. To-ru Iwatani
39. Yuji Naka
40. Rieko Kodama
41. Koji Igarashi
42. Yasumi Matsuno
43. Tetsuya Mizuguchi
44. Hirohide Sugiura
45. Goichi Suda
46. Hideki Kamiya
47. Akihiro Hino
48. Yoshinori Kitase
49. Shinji Mikami
50. Fumito Ueda
51. Yuuji Horii
52. Masahiro Sakurai



14 Gunpei Yokol (-)

6 Eiji Aonuma (+)

5 Takashi Tezuka (-)

NEW RULES: Add 1 point to a developer, deduct 1 point from two different developers.
3 votes per day, you CAN NOT use all your votes at once.
Now that there are only 5 developers left, only single votes will be allowed. 3 votes per day with at least 1 hour between each individual vote.
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
18. Ken Levine
19. Marc Pacini
20. Cid Meier
21. Martin Hollis
22. Ted Price
23. Masaya Kobayashi
24. Brett Sperry & Louis Castle
25. Gregg Mayles
26. Jason Jones & Alex Seropian
27. Dustin Browder
28. Ron Gilbert
29. Eugene Jarvis
30. Andy Gavin & Jason Rubin
31. Tim Schafer
32. Chris Taylor
33. Drew Karpyshyn
34. James Ohlen
35. Hiroshi Iuchi
36. Eiji Kikuchi
37. Will Wright
38. To-ru Iwatani
39. Yuji Naka
40. Rieko Kodama
41. Koji Igarashi
42. Yasumi Matsuno
43. Tetsuya Mizuguchi
44. Hirohide Sugiura
45. Goichi Suda
46. Hideki Kamiya
47. Akihiro Hino
48. Yoshinori Kitase
49. Shinji Mikami
50. Fumito Ueda
51. Yuuji Horii
52. Masahiro Sakurai



15 Gunpei Yokol (+)

5 Eiji Aonuma (-)

4 Takashi Tezuka (-)

NEW RULES: Add 1 point to a developer, deduct 1 point from two different developers.
3 votes per day, you CAN NOT use all your votes at once.
Now that there are only 5 developers left, only single votes will be allowed. 3 votes per day with at least 1 hour between each individual vote.
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
18. Ken Levine
19. Marc Pacini
20. Cid Meier
21. Martin Hollis
22. Ted Price
23. Masaya Kobayashi
24. Brett Sperry & Louis Castle
25. Gregg Mayles
26. Jason Jones & Alex Seropian
27. Dustin Browder
28. Ron Gilbert
29. Eugene Jarvis
30. Andy Gavin & Jason Rubin
31. Tim Schafer
32. Chris Taylor
33. Drew Karpyshyn
34. James Ohlen
35. Hiroshi Iuchi
36. Eiji Kikuchi
37. Will Wright
38. To-ru Iwatani
39. Yuji Naka
40. Rieko Kodama
41. Koji Igarashi
42. Yasumi Matsuno
43. Tetsuya Mizuguchi
44. Hirohide Sugiura
45. Goichi Suda
46. Hideki Kamiya
47. Akihiro Hino
48. Yoshinori Kitase
49. Shinji Mikami
50. Fumito Ueda
51. Yuuji Horii
52. Masahiro Sakurai



Satan said:

"You are for ever angry, all you care about is intelligence, but I repeat again that I would give away all this superstellar life, all the ranks and honours, simply to be transformed into the soul of a merchant's wife weighing eighteen stone and set candles at God's shrine."

16 Gunpei Yokol (+)

4 Eiji Aonuma (-)

3 Takashi Tezuka (-)

NEW RULES: Add 1 point to a developer, deduct 1 point from two different developers.
3 votes per day, you CAN NOT use all your votes at once.
Now that there are only 5 developers left, only single votes will be allowed. 3 votes per day with at least 1 hour between each individual vote.
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
18. Ken Levine
19. Marc Pacini
20. Cid Meier
21. Martin Hollis
22. Ted Price
23. Masaya Kobayashi
24. Brett Sperry & Louis Castle
25. Gregg Mayles
26. Jason Jones & Alex Seropian
27. Dustin Browder
28. Ron Gilbert
29. Eugene Jarvis
30. Andy Gavin & Jason Rubin
31. Tim Schafer
32. Chris Taylor
33. Drew Karpyshyn
34. James Ohlen
35. Hiroshi Iuchi
36. Eiji Kikuchi
37. Will Wright
38. To-ru Iwatani
39. Yuji Naka
40. Rieko Kodama
41. Koji Igarashi
42. Yasumi Matsuno
43. Tetsuya Mizuguchi
44. Hirohide Sugiura
45. Goichi Suda
46. Hideki Kamiya
47. Akihiro Hino
48. Yoshinori Kitase
49. Shinji Mikami
50. Fumito Ueda
51. Yuuji Horii
52. Masahiro Sakurai



17 Gunpei Yokol (+)

3 Eiji Aonuma (-)

2 Takashi Tezuka (-)

NEW RULES: Add 1 point to a developer, deduct 1 point from two different developers.
3 votes per day, you CAN NOT use all your votes at once.
Now that there are only 5 developers left, only single votes will be allowed. 3 votes per day with at least 1 hour between each individual vote.
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
18. Ken Levine
19. Marc Pacini
20. Cid Meier
21. Martin Hollis
22. Ted Price
23. Masaya Kobayashi
24. Brett Sperry & Louis Castle
25. Gregg Mayles
26. Jason Jones & Alex Seropian
27. Dustin Browder
28. Ron Gilbert
29. Eugene Jarvis
30. Andy Gavin & Jason Rubin
31. Tim Schafer
32. Chris Taylor
33. Drew Karpyshyn
34. James Ohlen
35. Hiroshi Iuchi
36. Eiji Kikuchi
37. Will Wright
38. To-ru Iwatani
39. Yuji Naka
40. Rieko Kodama
41. Koji Igarashi
42. Yasumi Matsuno
43. Tetsuya Mizuguchi
44. Hirohide Sugiura
45. Goichi Suda
46. Hideki Kamiya
47. Akihiro Hino
48. Yoshinori Kitase
49. Shinji Mikami
50. Fumito Ueda
51. Yuuji Horii
52. Masahiro Sakurai



Satan said:

"You are for ever angry, all you care about is intelligence, but I repeat again that I would give away all this superstellar life, all the ranks and honours, simply to be transformed into the soul of a merchant's wife weighing eighteen stone and set candles at God's shrine."