UPDATE: THIS THREAD IS FINISHED.
Voting has now COMMENCED
http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=83440
I was inspired to create this thread by the 10 Men Who Changed the Gaming Industry Forever thread.
Long story short, someone did a writup for their blog discussing who they think to be the ten most important men to the gaming industry (as evidenced by their numbering scheme).
Naturally, given their rather odd list and even odder ordering scheme, much rioting ensued. Virtually nobody was happy with the list, and many seemed downright offended. A number of incredibly important developers (and other industry giants) were left out, while others simply were given too much/too little recognition.
As a result, I decided... We'll do our own list. First, we're going to compile a complete list of all men (and any important women) worthy of being among the "most important" to the gaming industry. Developers, engineers, whatever! If they've been important to the gaming industry, we want them! Make suggestions of who you think belongs, and please, don't submit a list fifteen people long. Just name a few people that YOU personally think are worthy. After a sufficiently long list (allowing an as-of-yet undetermined amount of days) is compiled, I will begin part 2.
EDITED AND CHANGED!
Part 2 will now be a VOTING SEQUENCE. Each member will select their top ten favourite developers/engineers/composers/artists/designers, and order them from favourite to least. Your votes will count as fifteen points for #1, twelve for #2, ten for #3, eight for #4, six for five, five for six, four for seven, three for eight, two for nine, and one point for your number ten slot. I will research ALL people to be certain that they belong on the list. If you submit someone that's, for instance, only worked on two or three games, and those games weren't HUGE GIGANTIC AAA GAME-OF-THE-YEAR MULTIPLAT CHANGE-THE-WORLD LET'S-MAKE-A-MOVIE-ABOUT-IT-QUICK! hits, then I will disqualify said person. Additionally, nobody gives a crap about the guy that made Game.com, nor about the president of Tiger Electronics. Their impact on the overall gaming world is near zero. Thus said, I will be trimming down the list of nominated people to a manageable list, THEN we'll vote.
After all voting is completed, I will select the top 20-30 (likely 25, unless I decide there aren't enough/are too many important names, in which case I'll mold the number to fit the appropriate amount), then I will do a write-up on each one and explain why they deserve their spot on the list.
And from there on, if we get an appropriate amount of participation, this list will be the Definitive List of the Most Important Men to the Gaming Industry!
Enough explaining! Who do you think are the most important men (and women) to the gaming industry?
FULL LIST OF NOMINEES:
(NOW in alphabetical order)
James Allard
Michel Ancel
Chris Avellone
Danny Bilson
Cliff Bleszinski
Dan Bunten
Nolan Bushnell
David Cage
John Carmack
Tom Chilton
Doug Church
Richard Garriott
Bill Gates
Ron Gilbert
Gary Gygax
Trip Hawkins
Kazuo Hirai
Yuji Horii
Dan & Sam Houser
Seiichi Ishii
Satoru Iwata
David Jaffe
Jane Jensen
Kenji Kaido
Jeff Kaplan
Yoshinori Kitase
Hideo Kojima
Koji Kondo
Ken Kutaragi
Ken Levine
Brad McQuaid
Sid Meier
Bill Mensch
Shinji Mikami
Shigeru Miyamoto
Peter Molyneux
Peter Moore
Michael Morhaime
Masahiro Mori
Yuji Naka
Gabe Newell
Tetsuya Nomura
Alexey Pajitnov
Rob Pardo
Chuck Peddle
Ted Price
Frédérick Raynal
Jason Rubin
Hironobu Sakaguchi
Masahiro Sakurai
Tim Schafer
Bruce Shelley
Warren Spector
Brett Sperry
Chris & Tim Stamper
Bill Stealy
Goichi Suda
Yu Suzuki
Satoshi Tajiri
Takashi Tezuka
Akira Toriyama
Bill Trost
Fumito Ueda
Nobuo Uematsu
Masayuki Uemura
Ken & Roberta Williams
Will Wright
Hiroshi Yamauchi
Kazunori Yamauchi
Gunpei Yokoi
Hiroaki Yotoriyama
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