It may be quite a challenge to justify some positions that people are in that we will be seeing too.

Ken Kutaragi *Cough*

Could you just give it a rest already????

Why do this in a perfectly fine thread??

It's like each thread needs atleast 1 or 2 flame bait posters these days... 

I personally believe Kutaragi is EXACTLY where he should be.

There's only 29 people more important than Goichi Suda? I mean who is that guy.

DAY TWO

26: Warren Spector

Warren Spector, finishing off with two votes at 13 points, he's your twenty-sixth placer. Spector has been a game developer for over two decades. His videogame credits began in 1990 when he helped work on the classic hit Wing Commander and its expansion, The Secret Missions. After that, he began working in the Ultima series, in which he developed six titles. He also worked on System Shock, the spiritual ancestor to Bioshock.  He's been credited in almost two dozen games, nearly all in formidably well-known franchises. His most praised work is likely that on Deux Ex, the cyberpunk first-person RPG that later earned a sequel, Deus Ex: Invisible War, which Spector also developed. If it weren't for many of the titles Spector worked on, it can be said that much of the gaming scene in the past twenty years would have been worlds different. Today, he's the lead designer for the heavily anticipated Epic Mickey, coming out for Wii next year.

25: Shinji Mikami

Mikami comes in 27th with fifteen points, collecting four votes to place there. Shinji Mikami has been working with Capcom for nearly twenty years. He first began with making a trivia Gameboy title, then he moved on to movie-to-game adaptations, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Aladdin, and Goof Troop. After that, he decided to move on to develop a horror title for the Playstation and Sega Saturn. With this was born Resident Evil, moving on to become the first game to be classified a "survival horror". Since then, Mikami has worked on nearly every Resident Evil title (all except RE5), as well as Viewtiful Joe , P.N.03, killer7, and the Dino Crisis series. He is now working on an unknown title with Goichi Suda.

24: Gabe Newell

Ol' Gabe, also receiving fifteen points in four votes, snuck in just above Mikami for having created one of the most influential and well-known gaming companies today. Newell created Valve, the developers behind the acclaimed Half-Life series and creators of the Steam online service. Newell had worked for Microsoft for thirteen years, becoming a millionaire off of the work he did for Microsoft (heck, he produced three versions of Windows). Eventually, he decided to leave Microsoft to start a gaming company. He created Valve in 1996, releasing their hit Half-Life just two years later. Half-Life became an instant hit, and Valve is now credited with twenty games, including Counterstrike, Team Fortress, Portal, and Left 4 Dead, as well as their respective sequels/to-be-released sequels. Additionally, Valve released Steam, their online content delivery service, in 2003. Originally, it was only any good for obtaining Valve titles, but over time, it began collecting non-Valve games, and today is the largest content delivery service in the world, massing a library nearly 900 titles strong and over 20 million accounts. It also has moved well beyond merely a content delivery service, containing a community messaging system and even a web browser, as well as launcher-functions for games outside the Steam name. Currently, Newell is overseeing production of Valve's next three titles, all heavily anticipated - Half-Life 2: Episode 3, Portal 2, and the soon-to-be-released Left 4 Dead 2.

23: Bill Gates

The richest man in the world. Bill Gates. Gates also finished off with 15 points, this time only in three votes. Gates placed above Newell because, well, Newell wouldn't have started Valve had it not been for the millions of dollars he made... working for Gates! Gates began Microsoft in 1975, creating boring software nobody really cares about anymore. In the early '80s, however, they created the MS-DOS operating system and became an instant success. They then continued to create the graphical user interface, Windows, to operate over top of MS-DOS, and Windows ultimately continued on to surpass MS-DOS as the world's most popular operating system. Today, Bill Gates is the wealthiest man in the world, and Microsoft is one of the biggest companies in the world. Microsoft was already to thank for a huge chunk of the gaming industry, then they entered it themselves. Microsoft's gaming branch first rose to prominence in 1996 with Flight Simulator, but they gained more recognition the following year with Age of Empires, then continued releasing dozens of hits over the next couple years. They also entered the videogame console wars in 2001, releasing the Xbox. Today, they produce the Xbox 360, now the most successful American videogame console ever. Gates is no longer the CEO of Microsoft - he's since retired from that position. But he's still a chairman, and he's still the wealthiest man in the world, so he definitely still moves a lot of the gaming industry.



And with that, you have today's entries. Who will we see tomorrow? You'll have to wait and see. Until then...

To be continued...

Surprising to see Mr. Gates so soon in the countdown...

Oh.. i missed the voting thread.. lets hope Miyamoto gets a nice position next to Willy Wonka, he deserves it

>_>

Still wish it was 5 a day.

I can say that I don't think it gets particularly fun until Sunday's people. Tomorrow's bore me.

Also, I'd just like to point out that this list ultimately turned out very fanboy'd out. The order is out of wack, and that's entirely to blame on voters putting people they LIKED and not for their actual INFLUENCE.

I'm VERY disappointed in a large part of the results. This is why I wanted to delay the results for more votes. If we'd have gotten more objective votes (say, you know, STAFFERS?), we could've weeded out some of those ridiculous standings.

But what can you do? Stay tuned to see what we DID decide.