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nen-suer on 17 August 2009

1. Ken Kutaragi

2. Shigeru Miyamoto

3. Hideo Kojima

4. Hironobu Sakaguchi

5. Nobuo Uematsu

6. Shinji Mikami

7. Sam & Dan House

8. Ted Price

9. Jason Rubin

10.James Allard



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Naum on 17 August 2009

Shigeru Miyamoto as NR 1

Don't care about the rest.



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non-gravity on 17 August 2009
nen-suer said:
non-gravity said:
Houser brothers - who created GTA, the first sand-box game. (right?)
Hideo Kojima - for creating the stealth genre

To be fair TENCHU was the first


The original Metal Gear launched in like 1987 on the MSX at a time where action games where all about shooting all the badies in your way. The MSX was only popular in Japan and the Netherlands, so it wasn't untill the step-child NES port that all gamers across the globe could experience it.

Rath on 17 August 2009

Actually the first stealth game I can think of is the original Wolfenstein. That predated MG by several years I think.



outlawauron on 17 August 2009

Tetsuya Nomura
Yoshinori Kitase



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Xoj on 17 August 2009

ken kutagari : father of the playstation, made a console popular and open the arms to third party.
Tetsuya nomura: character designer and director, make me cry ith FF7 -8- 10 KH, and likely do it again with 13 and versus.
the guy can do some caracters connection that are no where from be seen.
only tite kubo stand to him in my eyes.
Hideo Kojima: EVERY of his game it's perfect. his games are EPIC.
Fumito Ueda: Combine hideo and nomura you have fumito, ICO and shadow of the colossus are deep stories, yet simple characters that can still move you, and epic.

honorable mentions:
ted price - imsomniac games CEO, company that gave us spyro, resistance and rachet and clank, he also been involve against the censorship of video games.

yeah they all japanese, americans never have created a character in the ranks of sephiroth or ICO for me, they stories are written by american TV series writers, space marines, star trek, all characters are never memorable. IMO.



Kage848 on 17 August 2009

Shigeru Miyamoto



outlawauron on 17 August 2009

Sakaguchi.



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thetonestarr on 17 August 2009

I'll let the list run through tomorrow and Wednesday, then I'll begin with the next stage.

Also, after considering it, I've decided perhaps a voting system WOULD work better. That way, a person with more time on their hands couldn't overrule another person's opinions just because they only had five minutes to post that day.



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zarx on 18 August 2009

the fact that people seem to be nominating people that just made games they like wrather than truly influentual people tells me that this is going to be a farce.

but anyway
Allan Alcorn: the man made PONG in 1973

Allen Adham: one of the main early blizzard people worked on warcraft1 OvH, Diablo and starcraft. instramental in online gaming

John Romero: not carmack good but still he was still instramental in early id stuff

Chris Roberts: wing commander etc

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