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  Jordan Mechner

  Jordan Mechner (born 4 June 1964) is an American game programmer, game designer, screenwriter and movie director. Mechner was born in New York City. He graduated from Yale University with a BA in Psychology in 1985. He is best known for creating the Prince of Persia franchise in 1989. Mechner's...
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  Smoking Car Productions

  Jordan Mechner founded Smoking Car Productions to create the computer game The Last Express. The company was located in San Francisco from 1993 - 1997 and at its peak had sixty full-time employees The principals included:
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  Robert Cook

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  MicroProse

  MicroProse, as a corporation and brand name, has been owned by several entities since its original founding by Sid Meier and Bill Stealey in 1982, as Microprose Software. Founded in 1982 by Bill Stealey and Sid Meier, Microprose Software, Inc was primarily known as a publisher of flight, military...
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  Maxis

  Maxis Software is an American company founded as an independent video game developer in 1987. It is currently a subsidiary of Electronic Arts (EA). Maxis is the creator of the best-selling computer game of all time, The Sims and its sequel The Sims 2. These titles and their related products are the...
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  Roberta Williams

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  Nintendo

  Nintendo Co., Ltd. (任天堂株式会社, Nintendō Kabushiki gaisha) is a multinational corporation located in Kyoto, Japan. Founded on September 23, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi, it produced handmade hanafuda cards. By 1963, the company had tried several small niche businesses, such as a cab company and a love...
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  Activision

  Activision (ATVI) is an American video game developer and publisher, majority owned by French conglomerate Vivendi SA. It was founded on October 1, 1979 and was the first independent developer and distributor of video games for gaming consoles. Its first products were cartridges for the Atari 2600...
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  Looking Glass Studios

  Looking Glass Studios was a computer game development company during the 1990s. The company originally formed as Looking Glass Technologies, when Blue Sky Productions and Lerner Research merged. Their games were regarded for demonstrating innovative gameplay, pioneering physics simulation, and well...