David Crane Vs Shigeru Myamato

[pocketmego]

I started this to finally settle this once and for all. My choice is easy. Crane made a system incapable of much, do things its creators never dreamed were possible. He created the first true Video Game character and the first multi-screened side scroller.

 

Myamato created the first platformer game. Then he took Pitfall, made it easier and added defensive weapons to it and called it Super Mario Brothers.

 

Then he took Adventure added characters and ideas from the Tom Cruise movie legend and created Zelda.

 

Obviously the most important creator between these two can only be David Crane.

 

Incidently, was Myamato a programmer or did he just design game ideas and get other people to program them? I always here he designed games and drew for them, but I never hear of him as a programmer.

 

-Ray

 

 

 

Hmmm, I seem to have posted this twice and didn't do the poll right. Can one of the moderators help me please.

 

Thanks

 

-Ray

Edited August 2, 2006 by pocketmego