GAME DESIGNER

Carol Shaw

1955 - Today

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Carol Shaw (born 1955) is one of the first female game designers and programmers in the video game industry. She is best known for creating the Atari 2600 vertically scrolling shooter game River Raid (1982) for Activision. She worked for Atari, Inc. from 1978 to 1980, where she designed multiple games including 3-D Tic-Tac-Toe (1978) and Video Checkers (1980), both for the Atari VCS before it was renamed to the 2600. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Carol Shaw is the 26th most popular game designer, the 7,480th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,112th in 2019) and the 8th most popular American Game Designer.

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Among GAME DESIGNERS

Among game designers, Carol Shaw ranks 26 out of 77. Before her are Klaus Teuber, Hironobu Sakaguchi, Shinji Mikami, Naoto Ohshima, Hidetaka Miyazaki, and Reiner Knizia. After her are Will Wright, Masahiro Sakurai, Yoko Taro, Yu Suzuki, Peter Molyneux, and Kazunori Yamauchi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Carol Shaw ranks 315. Before her are Enric Miralles, Andrei Gavrilov, Norbert Eder, Darius Khondji, Charles Shaughnessy, and Ibrahim Isaac Sidrak. After her are Jesús María Zamora, Kane Hodder, Marja-Liisa Kirvesniemi, Ana Gabriel, Diamanda Galás, and Claudia Roth.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Carol Shaw ranks 7,482 out of 20,380. Before her are Dan Duryea (1907), John Esposito (1940), Lili Reinhart (1996), Cleveland Abbe (1838), Estelle Taylor (1894), and Mary E. Peters (1948). After her are Mary Wickes (1910), Kevin Feige (1973), Sasha Banks (1992), William Joseph Simmons (1880), Erica Jong (1942), and Michael Learned (1939).

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Among GAME DESIGNERS In United States

Among game designers born in United States, Carol Shaw ranks 8. Before her are Lizzie Magie (1866), Jeff Kinney (1971), Gabe Newell (1962), John Carmack (1970), Todd Howard (1971), and Steve Jackson (1953). After her are Will Wright (1960), Roberta Williams (1953), John Romero (1967), Dave Arneson (1947), Jeff Kaplan (1972), and Scott Cawthon (1971).

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