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nen-suer on 18 August 2009
non-gravity said:
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.

oh, u dont mean 3D game.

In that case"Castle Wolfenstein" was the first ever. it was released back on 1981



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880user088 on 18 August 2009

HIDEO KOJIMA

Shigeru Miyamoto
Fumito Ueda
Gabe Newell
Satoru Iwata



Gnizmo on 18 August 2009

Are we talking most important ever, or most important currently? I ask because changes the list in a very dramatic way. People like Romero or Kutaragi were extremely important in getting us to this point, but going forward are likely to be ignored. There are reasons I will gladly explain for this if anyone actually cares, but it would change my list in a major way.



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Wonktonodi on 18 August 2009

Rob Pardo, Jeff Kaplan, Tom Chilton
guys from WoW don't play it myself but it is so huge thought they should be mentioned



Squilliam on 18 August 2009

I demand Chuck Peddle and Bill Mensch be included!!!

What did they do? They fathered the chips that were the cradle of gaming. Their 6502 chip was used in the NES, Atari 2600, Commodore 64, and early Apple computers. Without that chip gaming would not be what it is today.



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Pristine20 on 18 August 2009

Ken Kutaragi for me. Don't care what he said



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thetonestarr on 18 August 2009
Gnizmo said:
Are we talking most important ever, or most important currently? I ask because changes the list in a very dramatic way. People like Romero or Kutaragi were extremely important in getting us to this point, but going forward are likely to be ignored. There are reasons I will gladly explain for this if anyone actually cares, but it would change my list in a major way.

Most important ever.

zarx said:

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

unmentiond peeps

 As I've explained many times before, there's no guarantee that these "nobodies" that people are repeatedly listing will actually make it to the final voting system. I will be trimming the list down, and people that I personally think hold no major influence on shaping the gaming industry WILL be cut out. Although, if there's major enough involvement, it won't matter because the people voting for reasonable, truly influential members of the industry will outweigh the goofs.

 

Anyways, I'm going to nominate, to get 'em out of the way:

-Kazuo Hirai
-Cliff Bleszinski
-David Jaffe
-Warren Spector
-Gary Gygax
-Michael Morhaime
-Dan Bunten



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Pretendo on 18 August 2009

If everyone is putting down Ken Kutaragi for the Playstation why Hasn't anyone nominated the creator of the NES/SNES? (A far more important contribution to gaming)

I guess I will: Masayuki Uemura



Gnizmo on 18 August 2009

I would add Brad McQuaid and Bill Trost as well for their work in Everquest. The game paved the way for World of Warcraft in many many ways. Rob Pardo, Jeff Kaplan, and Tom Chilton also deserve their credit, but you shouldn't forget the people who showed games of that scale could be done.



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Khuutra on 18 August 2009

Can we get Chris Avellone up there? He hasn't been influential in the traditional sense, but one could make the argument that his work as a writer for Black Isle Studios and Obsidian Entertainment has been important.