IGN.com | AskMen.com | Rotten Tomatoes | GameSpy | FilePlanet | TeamXbox | CheatsCodesGuides | GameStats | Direct2Drive | Green Pixels 12. David Crane Not a lot of people on our list can claim to have propped up a company all by their lonesome, but David Crane comes awfully close. One of the core founding members of Activision, Crane helped define some of the company's earlier efforts with games like Pitfall!, Decathlon, Ghostbusters (a particularly great effort considering most licensed games -- especially in the earlier days of the industry -- were terrible to the point of almost causing it to cave in on itself) and Little Computer People (arguably the first modern digital pet). The wealth of creative juices that poured from Crane's brain was in many ways the Top 100 Kick-Off basis of Activision's success as a software publisher in the early '80s. Even after IGN begins its countdown of the top leaving Activision (which Crane co-founded with Alan Miller, who he met while at 100 game creators of all time. Atari), Larry Kaplan, Jim Levy and Bob Whitehead, he continued to be a fount of Humble Beginnings innovative energy, eventually getting title billing on the brilliant A Boy and His Blob From basements to billions. from Absolute Entertainment. The NES title would eventually become one of Absolute's most well-remembered titles, and helped solidify Crane's position as not only a co-founder of the development house (formed after he and Dan and Garry Industry Advice Top game creators share their tips Kitchen left Activision), but a driving force in their development efforts. on getting started. In 1995, Crane and Garry Kitchen left to form yet another development house, Games or Art? Skyworks Technologies (which was later renamed Skyworks Interactive). Skyworks Major developers debate the eternal counts among its current projects a handful of iPhone apps and the advergame.com question -- are games art? service, which powers a handful of sites carrying branded versions of casual games for sites like Lifesavers' Candystand.com and ESPN Arcade. Evolution of Gaming The impact of the Wii, PC development, and Gin and Tonics. Notable Games Pitfall! (1982) Top 10 Game Creators Revealed Industry leaders share their love for Decathlon (1983) the legends. Who is #1? Ghostbusters (1984) Little Computer People (1985) A Boy and His Blob (1989) 58 diggs All Comments (717) Add Comment 1 2 3 4 5 ... 36 Next ► Show By: Oldest First Latest First Lick-A-Metal posted: I think it's more exciting guessing who will end up in 2nd place. We all know Shigeru Miyamoto is the #1. He created Super Mario. The very icon of video games. You can't top that. The list wasn't very good. John Carmack ... [+] Full Comment Posted by: DiSc0Black on March 07, 2009 14:58 PDT.