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Godfathers Of Gaming

Posted by Hemos on from the interesting-coverage dept.

A reader writes: "The Godfather's Of Gaming -- GameSpot UK's choice of developers who most influenced gaming. They appeared to have focused on post 1990 people, still worth a look at GameSpot UK's site."

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  1. What About Mr. And Mrs. Williams? by BRock97 · · Score: 5

    HEY!!!! Where are Ken and Roberta Williams, founders of Sierra software?! They all but pioneered the graphical adventure in the late 80's. How many people remember playing the original Kings Quest or Police Quest? How about Space Quest and Leisure Suite Larry, both published by Sierra? As the poster said, it is post 90's, but give credit where credit is due!

    Bryan R.

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  2. Re:Oh for God's sake: Rand and Robyn Miller by Xenex · · Score: 3
    Myst, only the best-selling game of all time

    Umm, it may have been the best selling PC game of all time, but it has nothing on heaps of console games. Console games sell more then PC games, that is a fact. This isn't PC vs Console flamebait, that's just how things are.

    Also, in Myst's help it came out #1: When CD technology was new, and was still pretty spectacular, and #2: CD Burners wouldn't hit bigtime for another 4 or-so years, so if people wanted to game (and they did, it looked great) they had to pay for it.

    Not to say Myst wasn't a game that changed things, and i'd be surprised if Gamespot doesn't mention it in future updated to this Godfathers thing.

  3. Metroid? Metroid. by donglekey · · Score: 3

    How could they miss the late Gumpei Yoko (spelling?) He made the Metroid series, and just because there haven't been any recent games people seem to overlook. And what about the Zelda series?

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  4. Tetris by jedwards · · Score: 3

    An interesting selection. My addition to the "why isn't X there" list is Alexey Pajitnov?
    I've wasted more time playing tetris than anything else.

  5. *cough* by lpontiac · · Score: 4
    The seeds of this gaming revolution were already beginning to sprout before the formation of id Software, when John Carmack, Adrian Carmack and John Romero were producing games for Softdisk Publishing at the start of the 1990s. Titles like Commander Keen - Invasion of the Vorticons and Dangerous Dave in the Haunted Mansion both had similar themes: one man against hostile forces armed with a gun. Not the most original subject matter, granted, but it was their subsequent idea of a homage to one of their favourite games which made them quit Softdisk Publishing to create their own company. And so id Software was founded. Its first product was Wolfenstein 3D.

    Bullshit. A bunch of guys from Softdisk formed id Software to publish the Keen series; they later progressed to Wolf3D. Softdisk had nothing to do with the Keen stuff's publishing. Do I seem a little worked up? Maybe. I just looked at a banner ad to 'pay' for this so-called 'journalism.'

    I think everyone who's ever read a "history of gaming" article would be familiar with the story, and somehow whoever wrote this article has it all mixed up?

    Pure tripe. I wonder how much else in the article is just plain wrong?

  6. 5 day series by Alien54 · · Score: 3
    Looks like they wanted to have tasty bits for each day. and lets face it - do you want to save the best for last, or have all the good stuff up front?

    This looks like to be an interesting read all around.

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  7. Re:Where's the love? by JWhitlock · · Score: 3
    There's some good obvious picks on the list, but leaving out Steve Russell (Computer Space), Nolan Bushnell (No Introduction Needed?) and David Braben (Elite) are all inexcusable omissions.

    What about Shashi of Sind? It's inexcusable to miss one of the true Godfathers of gaming. I agree, the list is stuffed with people from this millineum at the expense of the true pioneers.

    A bit of satire there - not everyone knows who the people are that you are mentioning, including myself. Could you give a short bio?

    BTW, Shashi of Sind, according to a Indian legend, invented Chess. King Rai Bhalit in North West India wanted to reward him, and Shashi asked for one grain of wheat on the first square, two on the second, four on the third, etc. The king agreed. This is (2^65)-1, or 3.69x10^19 grains, much more than the total amount of grain availible.

    This is probably the basis of the legend that Chess comes from India, but Sam Sloan thinks it came from China.

  8. I realize... by NecroPuppy · · Score: 3

    That these appear to be in no particular order, but Shigeru Miyamoto should have been first.

    I mean without his contributions, where would we be? I think Donkey Kong was the first game I ever played, if only there was an egg crate there so I could reach the controls...

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  9. Where's the love? by geomcbay · · Score: 3
    There's some good obvious picks on the list, but leaving out Steve Russell (Computer Space), Nolan Bushnell (No Introduction Needed?) and David Braben (Elite) are all inexcusable omissions.

    Also, if they are going to credit companies, like Namco..Where's the love for Atari? The list is stuffed with people still in the business at the expense of some of the pioneers that have moved on.