The Most Influential Person to Video Games

Here it is, from day one of video games, you guys decide and debate.

I'd have to go with the man who created the medium since without him any of those otherpeople up there wouldn't have been able to be influential.norfair_dweller

But one could argue that more than one person was creating the first game at the same time. So was it bound to happen? It's usually the first that creates it, and the second that pulls it off. Neighter one is wrong.

Miyamoto by far.Haziqonfire

Tough to say....

Carmack is pretty far up there but I'm not sure if he is as high as Miyamoto or those others...

Miyamoto by far.Haziqonfire

If it wasn't for Nolan Buschnell and those other guys, Miyamato would never have been a game developer...

[QUOTE="Haziqonfire"]Miyamoto by far.SpaceDragonMan

If it wasn't for Nolan Buschnell and those other guys, Miyamato would never have been a game developer...

yes, but he is more influential imo.

Will Wright, Alexey Pajitnov, Miyamoto, Kojima, John Carmack. The big 5 in my opinion.

I picked Miyamoto.

But I disagree with the words "flawless imagination"

How can imagination be flawless? lol

Do you really need to ask? Miyamoto has probably one of the most inventive minds in the world of video games... no... in the world altogether.REVOLUTIONfreak

Lol, I don't know about that. I do love Miyamoto though. But I have to pay my respects to Ralph Baer, without his invention my life wouldn't be much today, even my job is centered around what he created. I LOVE THIS MAN, no homo.

[QUOTE="Haziqonfire"]Miyamoto by far.SpaceDragonMan

If it wasn't for Nolan Buschnell and those other guys, Miyamato would never have been a game developer...

someone would've eventually started the business.

It was natural order. It was new industry with potential of loads of money. If it wans't Nolan Buschnell, some other guy would've done it.

what about the one that invented pong? forgot his name.kiwisama

Originally that would be Ralph Baer. His invention was quickly replicated in a coin-op machine by Nolan Bushnell. There was a dispute over it, but Nolan using his business skills weasled his way out of it.