Home›Video Game Technology Pioneers›All Video Game Technology PioneersBrowse ByAll Video Game Technology PioneersReference and ClassificationDevelopingFigures who invented or commercially pioneered video game technology and the interactive-entertainment industry it created. Belongs here: inventors of foundational video game hardware and software and the entrepreneurs who first built the video game industry around them. Does not belong here: figures whose pioneering work is in another medium's technology, or media executives whose companies are not built around interactive game technology, grouped under industrialists, publishers and executives.FactsAll Video Game Technology PioneersSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEra of EmergenceWell-attested1962 1All Video Game Technology PioneersFilter Results85 entriesMediumAllVideo Games (60)NationalityAllAustralia (1)Canada (2)China (2)Egypt (1)Ireland (2)Israel (1)Japan (26)Russia (1)United Kingdom (7)United States (43)Birth YearAll1910 (1)1922 (1)1936 (1)1937 (1)1941 (1)1943 (1)1944 (1)1948 (1)1949 (1)1952 (1)1953 (1)1954 (3)1955 (6)1956 (1)1957 (1)1959 (1)1960 (3)1962 (1)1963 (1)1964 (4)1965 (6)1966 (3)1967 (3)1968 (2)1969 (1)1970 (3)1971 (4)1972 (2)1973 (2)1974 (2)1975 (3)1976 (1)1978 (2)1981 (1)1987 (1)1991 (1)AwardAllBAFTA Fellowship (4)First Penguin Award (1)Game Developers Choice Award (10)Game Developers Conference Lifetime Achievement Award (2)National Inventors Hall of Fame (1)Writers Guild of America Award (3)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 35Michael MorhaimeVideo Game Technology PioneersMike BoothVideo Game Technology PioneersMike DaillyVideo Game Technology PioneersNeil DruckmannVideo Game Technology PioneersNolan BushnellVideo Game Technology PioneersPatrice DésiletsVideo Game Technology PioneersPatrick WyattVideo Game Technology PioneersPeter MolyneuxVideo Game Technology PioneersRalph BaerVideo Game Technology PioneersRaph KosterVideo Game Technology PioneersRichard GrayVideo Game Technology PioneersRick GoodmanVideo Game Technology PioneersRob PardoVideo Game Technology PioneersRoberta WilliamsVideo Game Technology PioneersRobin WalkerVideo Game Technology PioneersSandy PetersenVideo Game Technology PioneersSatoshi TajiriVideo Game Technology PioneersShigeru MiyamotoVideo Game Technology PioneersShinji MikamiVideo Game Technology PioneersSid MeierVideo Game Technology PioneersSteve RussellVideo Game Technology PioneersTakaaki KidaniVideo Game Technology PioneersTakashi NishiyamaVideo Game Technology PioneersTakashi TokitaVideo Game Technology PioneersTim AndersonVideo Game Technology PioneersToby FoxVideo Game Technology PioneersToby GardVideo Game Technology PioneersTom HallVideo Game Technology PioneersTomohiro NishikadoVideo Game Technology PioneersToru IwataniVideo Game Technology PioneersWill WrightVideo Game Technology PioneersWilliam CrowtherVideo Game Technology PioneersWilliam HiginbothamVideo Game Technology PioneersYoshiaki KoizumiVideo Game Technology PioneersYoshinori KitaseVideo Game Technology Pioneers← Previous12Sources1. WikipediaWikimedia FoundationWikipedia: History of video games, Early history sectionQuote, Wikipedia: History of video games, Early history sectionSpacewar! was developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) student hobbyists in 1962 as one of the first such games on a video display.View the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.