Who is that Person?

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Here are some names of famous people, the companies they work for
and a few of the games they have designed.

Mark Baldwin (freelance)
Empire, Empire Deluxe, The Perfect General

Ian Bell (???)
Elite, Starlord

David Braben (???)
Elite, Frontier

Jon Van Caneghem (New World Computing)
Might & Magic series


Lori & Corey Cole (Sierra)
Quest for Glory series

Chris Crawford (freelance)
Balance of the Planet, Patton Strikes Back, involved with the Game
Developer's Conference, editor of the Journal of Computer Game
Design

Richard Garriot (Origin) also known as Lord British
The Ultima series, one of the founders of Origin

Daryl Gates (Sierra)
Police Quest 4; ex-Chief of Police of Los Angeles

Ron Gilbert (ex-LucasArts, now Humungous)
Maniac Mansion, Monkey Island series

Gary Gygax
(Co)inventor of D&D and AD&D

Lawrence Holland (LucasArts)
Their Finest Hour, Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe, X-Wing

Al Lowe (Sierra)
Leisure Suit Larry series, Freddy Pharkas

Sid Meier (MicroProse)
Pirates!, Railroad Tycoon, Civilization one of the founders of
MicroProse

Steve Meretzky (Legend)
Sorcerer, Zork Zero, Leather Goddesses of Phobos, Spellcasting
series

Brian Moriarty (LucasArts)
Beyond Zork, Wishbringer, Trinity, Loom, The Dig

Paul Neurath (LookingGlass Technologies)
Ultima Underworld series

Chris Roberts (Origin)
Space Rogue, Bad Blood, Wing Commander series, Strike Commander

Damon Slye (Dynamix)
Red Baron, Aces over the Pacific, Stellar 7, Nova 9

David Taylor (Id)
Doom

Jeff Tunnell (Dynamix)
Heart of China, Willy Beamish

Jim Walls (ex-Sierra, now Tsunami)
Police Quest series

Roberta Williams (Sierra)
King's Quest series, Laura Bow series, wife of Ken Williams,
founder of Sierra On-Line


Will Wright (Maxis)
SimCity, SimCity 2000

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