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Grand Theft Auto is the most successful video game franchise originating from the United Kingdom and is the best-selling action-adventure and open-world series. The series's best-selling game, Grand Theft Auto V, is the second best-selling video game of all time with around 200 million copies shipped. [ 49]
Satoshi Tajiri. Satoshi Tajiri ( Japanese: 田尻 智, Hepburn: Tajiri Satoshi, born August 28, 1965 [1]) is a Japanese video game designer and director who is the creator of the Pokémon franchise and the co-founder and president of video game developer Game Freak . A fan of arcade games in his youth, Tajiri wrote for and edited his own video ...
Sid Meier. Sidney K. Meier ( / ˈmaɪər / MIRE; born February 24, 1954) is an American businessman and computer programmer. A programmer, designer, and producer of several strategy video games and simulation video games, including the Civilization series, Meier co-founded MicroProse in 1982 with Bill Stealey and is the Director of Creative ...
This is a list of notable video game designers, past and present, in alphabetical order. The people in this list already have Wikipedia entries, and as such did significant design for notable computer games, console games, or arcade games. It does not include people in managerial roles (which often includes titles like "Producer" or ...
e. This is a list of video games that have sold the highest number of software units worldwide. The best-selling video game to date is Minecraft, a sandbox game released by Mojang in November 2011 for a wide range of PC, mobile and console platforms, selling more than 300 million copies across all platforms. Grand Theft Auto V and EA's Tetris ...
Occupation. Video game designer. Years active. 1980–present. Known for. Creator of Pac-Man. Tōru Iwatani (岩谷 徹, Iwatani Tōru, born January 25, 1955) is a Japanese video game designer who spent much of his career working for Namco. He is best known as the creator of the arcade game Pac-Man (1980). In 2009, he was chosen by IGN as one ...
Sports. Mode (s) Single-player, multiplayer. Pong is a table tennis –themed twitch arcade sports video game, featuring simple two-dimensional graphics, manufactured by Atari and originally released on 29 November 1972. It was one of the earliest arcade video games; it was created by Allan Alcorn as a training exercise assigned to him by Atari ...
Chris Roberts: programmer and designer of Freelancer, Star Citizen, and the Wing Commander games. Warren Robinett: Adventure, Rocky's Boots, & Robot Odyssey. John Romero: game programmer since 1979; known for Commander Keen, Doom, Quake. Jim Sachs: programmer of Saucer Attack and other home computer era games.