Jason Rubin

Jason Rubin (born 1970) is an American video game director, comic book creator, and Internet company founder. He is best known for the Crash Bandicoot series of games which were produced by Naughty Dog, the game development studio he co-founded with partner and childhood friend Andy Gavin in 1986. In 1983, Rubin met Andy Gavin in Hebrew school. Together, at the age of 15, they formed Naughty Dog in 1985. Later that year, they published their firs... more

Jason Rubin (born 1970) is an American video game director, comic book creator, and Internet company founder. He is best known for the Crash Bandicoot series of games which were produced by Naughty Dog, the game development studio he co-founded with partner and childhood friend Andy Gavin in 1986. In 1983, Rubin met Andy Gavin in Hebrew school. Together, at the age of 15, they formed Naughty Dog in 1985. Later that year, they published their first game together - a budgetware title called Ski Crazed, and in 1989, Rubin and Gavin sold their first game to Electronic Arts, an RPG called Keef the Thief. While Gavin was an undergraduate at Haverford College and he was at University of Michigan, he and Gavin collaborated on their next epic, an RPG called Rings of Power. The game began as a PC title, but during meetings at Electronic Arts, Gavin spotted a reverse engineered Sega Genesis, pitched a slightly modified version of the title to Trip Hawkins, and the title became the duo’s first... less