Michael Monreal

  • Shigeru Miyamoto

    Shigeru Miyamoto
    Born in Sonobe, Kyoto, Miyamoto graduated from Kanazawa Municipal College of Industrial Arts. He originally sought a career as a manga artist, until developing an interest in video games. With the help of his father, he joined Nintendo in 1977 after impressing the president, Hiroshi Yamauchi, with his toys.
  • Sid Meier

    Sid Meier
    Meier was born in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada, to parents of Dutch and Swiss descent, which conferred on him both Canadian and Swiss citizenship upon birth. When he was about three years old, his family moved to Detroit, Michigan, where he was raised. At the University of Michigan, he studied history and computer science, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in computer science in 1975.
  • Tennis for Two

    Tennis for Two
    Tennis for Two is a sports video game that simulates a game of tennis, and was one of the first games developed in the early history of video games.
  • SpaceWar

    SpaceWar
    Spacewar! is a space combat video game developed in 1962 by Steve Russell in collaboration with Martin Graetz.
  • Gabe Newell

    Gabe Newell
    He has been the poster child for first-game success with the original Half-Life, for digital distribution through Valve's own Steam service, for developing in-house technology and licensing that technology to other developers with the Source Engine, for episodic releases such as Half-Life: Episodes One and Two, and for cultivating community-born projects that turned into retail successes like Counter-Strike, Day of Defeat, Gunman Chronicles, Portal, and Left 4 Dead.
  • Hironobu Sakaguchi

    Hironobu Sakaguchi
    Hironobu Sakaguchi was born on November 25, 1962, in Hitachinaka, a city in Ibaraki Prefecture.[1][2] His parents were from Kyushu, and he would visit there frequently with his family in his childhood .Originally intending to become a musician, he briefly studied electronics and programming, joining Square as a part-time employee, then later a full-time employee when Square became an independent company in 1986.
  • John Carmack

    John Carmack
    Carmack has popularized many techniques in computer graphics, including "adaptive tile refresh" for Commander Keen, ray casting for Hovertank 3D, Catacomb 3-D, and Wolfenstein 3D, binary space partitioning which Doom became the first game to use, surface caching which he invented for Quake, Carmack's Reverse which he devised for Doom 3, and Mega Texture technology, first used in Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. Quake 3 popularized the fast inverse square root algorithm.
  • The Magnavox Odyssey

    The Magnavox Odyssey
    The Magnavox Odyssey was the first video game console, released in 1972. The first generation of consoles were limited to one or two games pre-built
  • Pong

    Pong
    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.
  • Mario Bros

    Mario Bros
    Mario Bros is a 1983 platform game developed and published by Nintendo for arcades. It was designed by Shigeru Miyamoto and Gunpei Yokoi, Nintendo's chief engineer.
  • Nintendo Entertainment System

    Nintendo Entertainment System
    The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) is an 8-bit home video game console produced by Nintendo.t he NES was designed by Masayuki Uemura. Nintendo's president, Hiroshi Yamauchi, called for a simple, cheap console that could run arcade games on cartridges.
  • Sega Genesis

    Sega Genesis
    The Sega Genesis, known as the Mega Drive[b] outside North America, is a 16-bit fourth generation home video game console developed and sold by Sega. It was Sega's third console and the successor to the Master System.
  • Game Boy

    Game Boy
    the Game Boy is a handheld game console developed by Nintendo, launched in the Japanese home market on April 21, 1989, followed by North America and Europe later that year. Following the success of the Game & Watch single-game handhelds, Nintendo developed the Game Boy to be more like a portable console, with interchangeable cartridges.
  • PlayStation

    PlayStation
    the PlayStation is a home video game console developed and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment. Sony began developing the PlayStation after a failed venture with Nintendo to create a CD-ROM peripheral for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in the early 1990s.
  • The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of time

    The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of time
    The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is a 1998 action-adventure game by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64.
  • Super Smash Bros

    Super Smash Bros
    Super Smash Bros is a crossover platform fighting game series published by Nintendo. The series was created by Masahiro Sakurai, who has directed every game in the series. The series is known for its unique gameplay objective which differs from that of traditional fighters, in that the aim is to increase damage counters and knock opponents off the stage instead of depleting life bars.
  • Xbox(console)

    Xbox(console)
    The Xbox is a home video game console manufactured by Microsoft that is the first installment in the Xbox series of video game consoles.
  • World of Warcraft

    World of Warcraft
    World of Warcraft is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game released in 2004 by Blizzard Entertainment.
  • Call of Duty: Black Ops

    Call of Duty: Black Ops
    Call of Duty: Black Ops is a 2010 first-person shooter game developed by Treyarch and published by Activision.
  • Minecraft

    Minecraft
    Minecraft is a 2011 sandbox game developed and published by Mojang Studios. Originally created by Markus "Notch" Persson using the Java programming language
  • Nintendo Switch

    Nintendo Switch
    The Switch is a tablet that can either be docked for home console use or used as a portable device, making it a hybrid console. Its wireless Joy-Con controllers function as two halves of a standard controller and alternatively as individual controllers, featuring buttons, directional analog sticks for user input, motion sensing, and tactile feedback.
  • Xbox Series X

    Xbox Series X
    The Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S are the fourth generation of consoles in the Xbox series. Like the Xbox One, the consoles use an AMD 64-bit x86-64 CPU and GPU. Both models have solid-state drives to reduce loading times, support for hardware-accelerated ray-tracing and spatial audio, the ability to convert games to high-dynamic-range rendering using machine learning, support for HDMI 2.1 variable refresh rate and low-latency modes, and updated controllers.
  • PlayStation 5

    PlayStation 5
    The base model includes an optical disc drive compatible with Ultra HD Blu-ray discs. The Digital Edition lacks this drive, as a lower-cost model for buying games only through download.
  • Cyberpunk 2077

    Cyberpunk 2077
    Cyberpunk 2077 is a 2020 action role-playing game developed by CD Projekt Red, and published by CD Projekt, and based on Mike Pondsmith's Cyberpunk tabletop game series.
  • Steam Deck

    Steam Deck
    The Steam Deck is a handheld gaming computer produced by Valve, designed to run the large library of games available on the Steam storefront client.