The most influential gaming man of all time is...

ZombieFan said:
The work which Jobs and Wozinak did together at Atari resulted in them forming Apple, and directly influenced their design of the Apple II.

Steve Jobs influenced Wozinak which resulted in breakout, which then resulted in the Apple II, which then resulted in the early USA home computer industry. Without Steve Jobs getting Wozinak to help him this wouldn't have happened. Therefore, the whole thing has influenced the games industry we know today.
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Well while we're at why not put Job's old man on there for siring him.
 
ZombieFan said:
The work which Jobs and Wozinak did together at Atari resulted in them forming Apple, and directly influenced their design of the Apple II.

Steve Jobs influenced Wozinak which resulted in breakout, which then resulted in the Apple II, which then resulted in the early USA home computer industry. Without Steve Jobs getting Wozinak to help him this wouldn't have happened. Therefore, the whole thing has influenced the games industry we know today.
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lol
 
I think this title should go to Trip Hawkins, the founder of Electronic Arts in 1982, where he stayed until 1991.

It's not his responsibiliy EA turned out the way it is now.

At the time he managed to assemble the best game coders to release and distribute all the game classics on which present gaming is built, combined with brilliant packaging:

Pinball Construction Set
Archon and Archon II: Adept
M.U.L.E.
One on One: Dr. J vs. Larry Bird
Music Construction Set
The Seven Cities of Gold
The Bard's Tale
Mail Order Monsters
Racing Destruction Set
Instant Music
Starflight
Skate or Die!
Zany Golf
Populous
The Immortal

You can trace back most of today's game genres to these.
 
HangTime said:
Peter Molyneux is a creative genius but I wouldn't necessarily put him down as the most influential. You would struggle to find anyone that can compete with his vision, his ability to create something unique, but in some ways that uniqueness is what reduces his influence - people don't copy his games much because they are off the wall! Also, while he is unsurpassed as a visionary, he never quite delivers his visions.

If you could merge Peter Molyneux with Sid Meier you'd have the perfect game designer - fantastic ideas coupled with the ability to completely nail the execution of those ideas.

Most influential - tough one, Carmack must be up there because he popularised proper 3D engines, FPS deathmatch, online multiplayer over TCP/IP client<>server model, and the engines he created got used in a bunch of games including massively successful franchises like Call of Duty.

Probably some console bods like that Nintendo geezer are viable choices too but as this is the PC gaming forum I'll ignore them :)
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I was actually thinking the same as you :)

Stelly
 
Steve Jobs had no interest in gaming whatsoever, from time to time some games companies would engage with Apple to try to get API's & dev support etc. Have a couple of initial meetings, then be ignored completely.

Gaming on Apple devices *despite* Steve Jobs.
 
Most of these so called "greatest" articles are of opinion which has either been sold out or has a conflict of interest

Relax. You lot should know better

In any case, I would had personally said, whoever managed to introduce the genre to the public/average joe, because its one thing to create something, its another to make it "mainstream"

Video games have been around for decades but they weren't always a household thing
 
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UncleRuckus said:
Excuse me then, Windows.
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Windows was just DOS (which he bought from some guy and tweaked a bit) with a GUI on top (which he stole from Apple). I wouldn't say Gates himself invented anything of worth, like Jobs, he just made some business decisions in the past, based off the hard work of other people, that somehow worked out well in the end.
 
Jeff Minter

p.s

Richard Garriot is a arse. He got lucky once everything else he has done turned out to be someone elses fault............ .... ...
 
arknor said:
LOLWUT
sony playstation is the only one of those that should be on the list...

it was the playstation that made gaming acceptable and no longer a nerdy geeky thing to do.

xboxlive has gave us what exactly? it was a massive step backwords from segas dreamarena for the dreamcast.......

wii brought us what? motion controlled gaming and a million crap cash in budget games.

steam i wouldnt class as a product it should be included in the PC as a whole.
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Lol agreed all of those mentioned in the list should have been higher then iphone i mean really what the **** has the iphone done?
ps1 should be number 1 on the list in my eyes.
Smells bs to me, whoever wrote this piece is either a fanboy or has been paid off.
 
SPG said:
Jeff Minter

p.s

Richard Garriot is a arse. He got lucky once everything else he has done turned out to be someone elses fault............ .... ...
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I know Meridian 59 or whatever it was got released before UO but UO really did change games... It started bringing MMOs to the masses.
 
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