considering how some people posted it seems as if the second one is up if so can someone please give me the link fats

Bill Gates? WTF

Why Thomas Edison too, he invented the light bulb and we all know that no light bulb means no videogames, wait.. he is the father of videogames then o_O

I agree with you on Kaz Hirai, but Bill Gates?

Just because video games can be played on a computer doesn't make him important.  I also doubt he was influencial in the decision for Microsoft to move into the console business.

Right, but

(1) Gabe Newell directly reported to Gates when he worked for Microsoft and became a millionaire, allowing him to begin Valve.
(2) It was still Gates' decision for Microsoft to go INTO gaming. Regardless if he's the one that came up with the idea, it still had to gain his approval. And Microsoft also has a huge impact in the PC gaming scene.
(3)...did you read the writeup?

Anyways, I'm working on today's writeup now.

DAMNIT. Firefox crashed and I lost the whole writeup. Gotta redo it all.

so when will the second one come and can you please just post all of them please

DAY THREE


22: Yuuji Horii

Yūji Horii comes in today at #22 with sixteen points collected in two quick votes. Horii began working for Enix in 1982 after he won a programming contest that they sponsored. He designed two games for them early on before moving on to create Dragon Warrior (Dragon Quest in Japan). Dragon Warrior was the very first ever top-down role-playing videogame, thus effectively becoming quite possibly the most important release in RPG videogaming history, as every RPG released since then pretty much is either influenced by that, or influenced by another game that was influenced by that. Whether directly or indirectly, if you've ever enjoyed an RPG, you probably have Horii to thank for it. Anyways, Dragon Warrior was an instant success, becoming wildly popular in Japan and a significant success in America. Today, the series has seen a variety of sequels, as well as a few spinoffs, and is still regarded as one of the best RPG franchises ever. The ninth main installment recently released on the Nintendo DS, and Horii is currently working on the tenth to be released next year on the Nintendo Wii.

21: Alexey Pajitnov

Алексей Пажитнов. The Russian that changed gaming forever. Finished also with 16 points, but in five votes. In 1984, he was working for the Soviet Academy of Sciences when he decided to put together a little puzzle game. Expecting just to be making a little mind exercise, Pajitnov never expected the storm that would ensue. He released Tetris on the Elektronika 60, then it was ported to the IBM PC shortly after. It traveled outside the Soviet Union rather quickly, when it was quickly discovered by the outside world. From here, lots of legal issues and a whole mess took place, but the game quickly became extremely popular. And through all of it, Pajitnov initially had zero rights to the game anyways, given that he created it under Soviet control. Finally, Nintendo got control of the game, releasing it for the NES and the Game Boy in 1989, and it reached worldwide recognition, becoming one of the most popular games of all time. Over the years, dozens of Tetris clones and imitators were released, until in 1996 when Pajitnov finally formed The Tetris Company because he regained rights to the title from Russia. Pajitnov is now involved in all Tetris releases yet again, and he has helped develop a number of other puzzle games, Tetris-related or not. Tetris is now by far the most well-known and best-selling puzzle game of all time, and the grandfather of most "traditional" puzzle games today - so much so that many consider "Tetris-like" to be a subgenre within puzzle games themselves!

20: Tetsuya Nomura

Nomura. Yet another RPG guy. This one finished with seventeen votes, placing him at #20 on our list. Nomura began working with Square in the early '90s as a debugger for Final Fantasy IV. Apparently he made an impression, because he quickly climbed up the development ladder and has now been highly influential in most Final Fantasy titles, main series or spinoff, since then, as well was every Kingdom Hearts title so far. Mainly designing characters, he also directs and produces a number of the titles he works on. Besides the Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts series, he worked heavily on Chrono Trigger, Super Mario RPG, the Parasite Eve series, and a handfull others. Today, he's working on pretty much everything that SquareEnix has announced, and probably a few titles that they haven't.


19: Gary Gygax

If you're an RPG fan and you don't know Gygax, you're a disgrace to the seventeen points he amassed. Gygax is the father of the role-playing game. Around 1948, at the simple age of ten, he began playing what we now know as "live-action RPGs" with his friends, helping decide the rules and oftentimes playing as referee. Quickly beginning to love wargaming and the realm of fantasy, he would play a variety of board games, then design variants off of them and mold them into new games. He began utilizing different types of dice to further randomize the outcome, sometimes only four-sided dice, sometimes as much as twenty-sided. In 1967, he organized a gaming meet in his basement, now retconned as "Gen Con 0" as the next year, he hosted the first official Lake Geneva Convention. It was through this gaming convention that he met some friends who inspired him to continue developing rules for his games, starting to give stats to each of the pieces of armor and weaponry that the figurines they used were "wielding". From this point, the cogs fell into place one at a time, until in 1972, he created Dungeons and Dragons. From here, the role-playing game became an instant smash-hit - most finding the only downside being that you have to do all the calculations yourself. The game became a multi-million dollar endeavor, earning fandom across the globe. Quickly, the idea of converting the gameplay mechanics to computerized form became popular, and role-playing videogames suddenly became all the rage. Today, the RPG is one of the most important videogame genres ever to exist, with elements spread throughout nearly every other genre to some degree. RPGs number in the thousands, with some of the bestselling game series, like Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, Pokemon, Deus Ex, Ultima, and hundreds of other series all having Gygax and his Dungeons and Dragons brainchild to thank for their existance.

To be continued.

Yes I did read the write up.

The diference between Bill Gates and pretty much everyone else on this list is that Bill Gates is not directly involved with the video game industry.  I would say whatever manager came up with the idea for Microsoft to move into gaming is more important to the video game industry than Bill Gates just giving the go ahead.

By the way, in the Gary Gygax write up, one of the years has five digits.  You might want to fix that.

But Gygax returned from the dim future of 19687 to give us the awesome gameplay that they pioneered.

It's true. In an alternate reality, it took them over 15000 years to learn how to pretend to be someone else and take on that role. And it took them another 2000 to attach stats and rules to that.

The remaining time, they were trying to decide whether to use dice or a deck of cards to make random decisions. Gygax solved that one for them.