Top-10 Console Game Designers

[BydoEmpire73]

I was born in 1980 & I seem to prefer the Japanese developers like Miyamoto, Gunpei Yokoi & Yuji Naka. I definitely played a lot of pitfall though & was glad to see David Crane up there. Oh! & I almost forgot: Yu Suzuki!

Good call on Yu Suzuki. Yuji Naka would probably be on my top 4 as well.

[Gordon Bennett]

I had to go with Gunpei Yokoi. He singlehandedly revolutionised handheld gaming.

[PFL]

No Jeff Minter, Dave Braben or the Darling brothers? C'mon UK get it together. :P

[GameGavel]

No Jeff Minter, Dave Braben or the Darling brothers? C'mon UK get it together. :P

Minter is def worthy, but not sure for console designers although he did start producing some great stuff for the Jag! PC game designers no question about it, he will be on our top-10 for that.

[Leathco]

I'm counting on Shiguru and Gunpei to be in the top three. So many great games between those two.

I'm also a big fan of Archer Maclean and David Crane, but don't see them scoring as high in the top ten. I also noticed John Romero, who did great things for the PC, but I am not too familiar with his console work other than ports of Doom and (shudder) Daikatana.

[Gordon Bennett]

Minter is def worthy, but not sure for console designers although he did start producing some great stuff for the Jag! PC game designers no question about it, he will be on our top-10 for that.

That top ten of PC game designers sounds very appealing to me. While I always thoroughly enjoy the show and listen eagerly to it in its entirety, my personal tastes and knowledge are almost exclusively classic computer games rather than console/arcade/pinball, so any added coverage of them is more than welcome as far as I am concerned.

I'll wait impatiently for that thread to add my own favourites.

[miner2049er]

I also noticed John Romero, who did great things for the PC, but I am not too familiar with his console work other than ports of Doom and (shudder) Daikatana.

Every FPS played on console owes it to Romero.

[Byte Knight]

Great Top 10 discussion guys! I agree that Romero really should be in a Top 10 computer game designer list however. Prince of Persia was also ported over to just about every console, but you didn't include Jordan Mechner in the list. So, I'm hoping that you guys will do the PC Top 10 list soon... There's so many great PC game designers that you may need to split it up into different genres like action, adventure, arcade, etc.

[zxspectrum16k]

great discussion as always. Crane, Romero, Yokoi bloody genii.
Although I adore the early work of Oliver Twins, well love it. Looking at the stuff published post 2003 is totally depressing, iCarly for gods sake but hell we all have mortgages to pay I suppose