Paying tribute to the Father/s of Video gaming

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On this Father's Day, let us not forget the founding fathers of Video games as we know it.

To the Man who started it all, all cheers for Ralph Bear. 

http://www.theatlantic.com/video/archive/2012/03/inventor-portrait-ralph-baer/254408/

Feel free to post who you thought are the Innovators of the gaming Genre in your replies to this one, and please supply a Bio when necessary.

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Shigeru Miyamoto

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigeru_Miyamoto

Voice innovator: Charles Martinet

It'sa me, Mario! and so many other voices.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Martinet

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Richard Garriott

aka Lord British

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Garriott




The man has influenced my life profoundly with Ultima. Those RPGs were almost a religion unto themselves.
Also, the forefather of the MMO scene with Ultima Online. I avoided that like the plague for fear of being hooked and addicted for life. That was the WoW before WoW.

Fun fact, Garriott has been to outer space....to the international space station to be exact.

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John Carmack
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Carmack



Creator of Doom, Castle Wolfenstein, Quake, Commander Keen  and the lesser known Slordax.

Another harbinger of the gaming world we have come to know and love.



Fun fact, like me, he is also a martial artist.

[Netizen1]

Hironobu Sakaguchi - creator of Final Fantasy series
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hironobu_Sakaguchi

[Berzerk]

Hideo Kojima, One of the most innovative video game designers imo.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideo_Kojima


Hiroshi_Matsumoto
 credited as one of the men who created Street Fighter. was also the mind a contributor in the creation of several other well known fighters, such as fatal fury and art of fightng.

http://snk.wikia.com/wiki/Hiroshi_Matsumoto

[TriniXaeno]

Wow, didn't know Hideo did Zone of the Enders. Loved the anime. Will have to pick up that HD collection version I see they've released for the PS3.

Big fan of Matsumoto's work myself. Especially Last Blade 2

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Koji Kondo, legendary sound composer for the titles that we love.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koji_Kondo

Hiroki Kikuta, the man behind the Mana series music magic as well as Soul Calibur V music.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroki_Kikuta

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Nobuo Uematsu. Final Fantasy Music Composer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobuo_Uematsu

Tim Schafer. Brutal game maker and innovator of genres.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Schafer

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Manga artist and Dragon quest character creator, Akira Toriyama


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_Toriyama

[shivadee]

a HUGE inspiration to myself as someone in the industry. He was told be his peers when he began working at Konami. This was after proposing a stealth based military game
"At least try to finish your game before you disgrace yourself" Where are they? Who cares....where is he? we ALL know.

My favorite quote by him "Making the impossible possible, if you can't do that what are you doing making games?"

[CamKrist]

I decided to give a hand and sent a post into social bookmarks. I hope the popularity will rise in.

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Gunpei Yokoi: The father of portable gaming. Creator of the Game boy

Without him we may have never started playing games on cell phones or any portable device, or seen the viability of it on such medium. Also the creator of the D-Pad.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpei_Yokoi

[TriniXaeno]

The D-Pad was an epic invention. +1