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*Shigeru Miyamoto: ''Donkey Kong'', ''Mario'', ''Legend of Zelda series/Legend of Zelda'' & others
*Peter Molyneux: Created ''Populous'', ''Syndicate'' and ''Black and White'', founded Bullfrog Software
*Alexey Pajitnov: ''Tetris''
*John Romero: ''Doom'' and ''Quake'' level designer, ''Daikatana'' producer, co-founder of id Software, Ion Storm and Monkeystone Games
*Hironobu Sakaguchi: ''Final Fantasy'' series and ''Chrono Trigger''
*Kou Shibusawa: producer of Sangokushi series and Nobunaga no yabo series
*Warren Spector: ''System Shock'' series, ''Thief video game/Thief'' series, ''Deus Ex''
*Yu Suzuki: Hang-On, Afterburner (video game)/Afterburner, Shenmue, Space Harrier and many other games for Sega
*Toshiro Tsuchida: Front Mission series
*Roberta Williams: Designer of ''King's Quest'' and other series, pioneered Adventure_game#Graphical_adventure_games/graphic adventure game genre, co-founded Sierra Entertainment
*Will Wright: game designer of ''SimCity'' series and ''The Sims'' series, co-founder of Maxis
*Gunpei Yokoi (deceased): inventor of handheld gaming, Metroid producer, Tetris Attack producer, Fire Emblem: Seisen no Keifu producer
*Shouzou Kaga: Fire Emblem series

Online gaming

*Richard Bartle: Wrote the first MUD along with Roy Trubshaw
*Richard Garriott (a.k.a. Lord British): Creator of ''Ultima Online'', Work on ''Lineage (computer game)/Lineage'', ''Lineage 2'' (Electronic Arts, NCsoft)
*Brad McQuaid: Co-Creator of ''EverQuest'' (Verant Interactive, Sony Online Entertainment, Sigil Games)
*Raph Koster: ''LegendMUD'', ''Ultima Online'', ''Star Wars: Galaxies''. (Electronic Arts, Sony Online Entertainment)
*John Smedley: Co-Creator of ''EverQuest'' (Verant Interactive, Sony Online Entertainment)
*Jake Song: Creator of ''Lineage (computer game)/Lineage'' (NCsoft)
*Will Wright: Creator of ''The Sims Online'' (Electronic Arts)

Programming

*John Carmack: ''Wolfenstein 3D'', ''Doom'', ''Quake'', co-founded id Software
*Richard Garriott (a.k.a. Lord British): creator of the ''Ultima'' series and founder of Origin Systems
*Sid Meier: ''Civilization_computer_game/Civilization'' series, ''Railroad Tycoon'', co-founder of Firaxis
*Tim Sweeney: founded Epic Games, ''Unreal series'' and the Unreal engine
*Will Wright: programmer of first games in ''SimCity'' series and co-founder of Maxis

Art and animation

* Jordan Mechner: Introduced realistic movement to video games with ''Prince of Persia''

Music and sound

* Martin Galway: well respected composer for Commodore 64's legendary SID sound chip
* Rob Hubbard: most loved composer for Commodore 64
* Koji Kondo: composer for Super Mario Bros and Zelda series
See List of video game musicians

Technology

*Ralph Baer: Inventor of the Magnavox Odyssey, the first video game console
*John Carmack: pioneered numerous techniques to 3D programming, developed techniques that gave birth to the first-person shooter genre, co-founded id Software
*Gunpei Yokoi: inventor of the Game and Watch, Game Boy and WonderSwan
*Masayuki Uemura: Inventor of the Nintendo Entertainment System and Super Nintendo Entertainment System

Companies
*Nolan Bushnell: Founder of Atari
*Trip Hawkins: Founder of Electronic Arts
*Ken Kutaragi President of Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc.
*Hirokazu 'Hip' Tanaka President of Pokemon Co.
*Hiroshi Yamauchi former president of Nintendo
*Satoru Iwata president of Nintendo

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