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Alan Michael Sugar, Baron Sugar (born 24 March 1947) is a British business magnate, media personality, author, politician, and political adviser.
In 1968, he started what would later become his largest business venture, consumer electronics company Amstrad.

Sugar founded Amstrad (Alan Michael Sugar Trading) in 1968. The company began as a general importer/exporter and wholesaler, but soon specialised in consumer electronics. By 1970, the first manufacturing venture was underway. He achieved lower production prices by using injection moulding plastics for hi-fi turntable covers, severely undercutting competitors who used vacuum-forming processes. Manufacturing capacity was soon expanded to include the production of audio amplifiers and tuners.


In 1980, Amstrad was listed on the London Stock Exchange and during the 1980s Amstrad doubled its profit and market value every year.[38] By 1984, recognising the opportunity of the home computer era, Amstrad launched an 8-bit machine, the Amstrad CPC 464. Although the CPC range were attractive machines, with CP/M-capability and a good BASIC interpreter, it had to compete with its arch-rivals, the more graphically complex Commodore 64 and the popular Sinclair ZX Spectrum, not to mention the highly sophisticated BBC Micro. Despite this, three million units were sold worldwide with a long production life of eight years.[39] It inspired an East German version with Z80 clone processors.[40] In 1985, Sugar had another major breakthrough with the launch of the Amstrad PCW 8256 word processor which retailed at over £300, but was still considerably cheaper than rival machines (such as the Apple Macintosh Plus, which retailed at $2599). In 1986 Amstrad bought the rights to the Sinclair computer product line and produced two more ZX Spectrum models in a similar style to their CPC machines. It also developed the PC1512, a PC compatible computer, which became quite popular in Europe[41] and was the first in a line of Amstrad PCs.

In 1988, Stewart Alsop II called Sugar and Jack Tramiel the worlds two leading business-as-war entrepreneurs.

The 1990s proved a difficult time for the company. The launch of a range of business PCs was marred by unreliable hard disks (supplied by Seagate), causing high levels of customer dissatisfaction and damaging Amstrads reputation in the personal computer market, from which it never recovered.[16] Subsequently, Seagate was ordered to pay Amstrad $153 million in damages for lost revenue. This was later reduced by $22 million in an out of court settlement.[43] In the early 1990s, Amstrad began to focus on portable computers rather than desktop computers. Also, in 1990, Amstrad entered the gaming market with the Amstrad GX4000, but it was a commercial failure, largely because there was only a poor selection of games available.[44] Additionally, it was immediately superseded by the Japanese consoles: Mega Drive and Super NES, which both had a much more comprehensive selection of games. In 1993, Amstrad released the PenPad, a PDA, and bought into Betacom and Viglen in order to focus more on telecommunications rather than computers. Amstrad released the first of its combined telephony and e-mail devices, called the e-m@iler, followed by the e-m@ilerplus in 2002, neither of which sold in great volume.

In 2007, he sold his remaining interest in the company in a deal to BSkyB for £125m.

Alan Mathison Turing OBE FRS was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, and theoretical biologist.
Turing was highly influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine, which can be considered a model of a general-purpose computer.
Turing is widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence.

Alexey Leonidovich Pajitnov (born 14 March 1956) is a Russian video game designer and computer engineer who developed Tetris while working for the Dorodnitsyn Computing Centre of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, a Soviet government-founded R&D center.

He only started to get royalties from his creation in 1996 when he and Henk Rogers formed The Tetris Company.

Comic illustrator and cartoonist known especially for Lorna, a comic for adults, and Mot, more aimed at a young audience.

Azpiri is also part of the golden age of Spanish software. In the 1980s, he worked on 200 covers for video games and computer programs for Dinamic Software, Topo Soft and Opera Soft, among other developers.

Allan Alcorn (born January 1, 1948) is an American pioneering engineer and computer scientist best known for creating Pong, one of the first video games.

ZX Spectrum Games:
Rocky 1985
West Bank 1985
Capitan Sevilla 1988

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William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, software developer, and philanthropist.
He is best known as the co-founder of Microsoft Corporation. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), president and chief software architect, while also being the largest individual shareholder until May 2014. He is one of the best-known entrepreneurs and pioneers of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s.

Born and raised in Seattle, Washington, Gates co-founded Microsoft with childhood friend Paul Allen in 1975, in Albuquerque, New Mexico; it went on to become the worlds largest personal computer software company.

Gates led the company as chairman and CEO until stepping down as CEO in January 2000, but he remained chairman and became chief software architect.
During the late 1990s, he had been criticized for his business tactics, which have been considered anti-competitive. This opinion has been upheld by numerous court rulings.
In June 2006, Gates announced that he would be transitioning to a part-time role at Microsoft and full-time work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the private charitable foundation that he and his wife, Melinda Gates, established in 2000.

He gradually transferred his duties to Ray Ozzie and Craig Mundie.
He stepped down as chairman of Microsoft in February 2014 and assumed a new post as technology adviser to support the newly appointed CEO Satya Nadella.
In March 2020, Gates left his board positions at Microsoft and Berkshire Hathaway to focus on his philanthropic endeavors including climate change, global health and development, and education.

Since 1987, he has been included in the Forbes list of the worlds wealthiest people.

Bob Wakelin was an artist from Liverpool, England who designed many game covers for Ocean Software and their sister label Imagine Software in the 1980s and 1990s. He also designed Oceans logo. Bob has said that the cover for Operation Wolf is one of his favourites from the era. There are a few covers he did which he said that he really hates, including Parasol Stars and Gift From The Gods.

His last artwork for Ocean was the 1994 game Central Intelligence. He then went into creating art for childrens books before having to retire due to ill health.

- Chuck Norris no pelea en Tekken, tan solo observa, y cuando quiere ganar, frunce el ceño. Todos mueren por Perfect.
- El God Mode en los videojuegos es en verdad Chuck Mode, pero no se le llama así por derechos de copyright de Chuck.
- Chuck Norris juega online con la NDS sin wi-fi.
- Chuck Norris podia ejecutar el Doom 3 en su spectrum 128 kbs. A máxima resolución y con filtros.
- Los cartuchos de ET fueron enterrados en el desierto, porque la otra opción era enterrar el videojuego oficial de Chuck Norris.
- Cuando Chuck Norris juega a Metal Gear Solid, los soldados tienen camuflaje: no quieren que Chuck Norris los vea.
- Las vidas infinitas se pusieron en los juegos para que la gente corriente pudiera sentirse como Chuck Norris por un momento.
- A Chuck Norris SÍ le gustó la peli de FFVII:AC.
- Chuck norris se ha pasado el NFS Underground con el peugeot 206 sin modificar.
- Chuck norris sabe como pulsar el rombo en el mando de PlayStation.
- Chuck norris tiene el Super Mario 32 para Sega Saturn.
- Chuck Norris no necesita arenas del tiempo para retroceder y corregir sus errores. Él nunca se equivoca !
- El mando de la PS3 no se cambia porque Chuck Norris no quiere.
- Chuck Norris tiene los 386 Pokémon.
- La PSP de Chuck Norris toma fotografías.
- Chuck Norris se ha pasado el Nintendogs.
- Chuck Norris ha jugado a Duke Nukem Forever.
- Una vez una empresa sacó una consola sin el consentimiento de Chuck Norris, se llamaba Sega.
- Las portátiles de Chuck Norris NUNCA tienen píxeles muertos, si los tiene es porque Chuck Norris los ha matado de una patada giratoria.
- Chuck Norris usa la segunda equipación del barça en el Splinter Cell.
- La Xbox 360 se llama así porque a Chuck Norris no le gustaron los 359 modelos anteriores.
- Chuck norris ya tiene la ps3.
- Chuck norris fue capaz de pasarse el GTA san andreas sin trucos, ni armas, y solo con la bici.

Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie was an American computer scientist.
He created the C programming language and, with long-time colleague Ken Thompson, the Unix operating system and B programming language.
Ritchie and Thompson were awarded the Turing Award from the ACM in 1983, the Hamming Medal from the IEEE in 1990 and the National Medal of Technology from President Bill Clinton in 1999. Ritchie was the head of Lucent Technologies System Software Research Department when he retired in 2007.
He was the R in K&R C, and commonly known by his username dmr.

Gonzalo Gonzo Suárez Girard es director de juegos y en su currículo consta haber dirigido y diseñado la exitosa serie de juegos Commandos, llevada a cabo por la desarrolladora de juegos española Pyro Studios

Games:
Goody 1988
Sol Negro 1988
Mot 1989

In 1987, Greg Fischbach co-founded Acclaim Entertainment Inc., a NASDAQ-listed company engaged in the video game business between 1987 and 2004.
He was its Co-Chairman and CEO. Fischbach was the CEO of Acclaim Entertainment until 2003. After Fischbachs resignation Rod Cousens became his successor and steered to 2004.

For 10 years of Acclaims work (1990-2000), the video game company released variety of well-known titles such as the Mortal Kombat and NBA Jam series, before Acclaim folded in 2004.

Gunpei Yokoi (横井 軍平, Yokoi Gunpei, September 10, 1941 – October 4, 1997), sometimes transliterated Gumpei Yokoi, was a Japanese video game designer.
He was a long-time Nintendo employee, best known as creator of the Game & Watch handheld system, inventor of the cross shaped Control Pad, the original designer of the Game Boy, and producer of a few long-running and critically acclaimed video game franchises, such as Metroid and Kid Icarus.

Hideo Kojima (小島 秀夫, Kojima Hideo, born August 24, 1963) is a Japanese video game designer, director, producer and writer.

Regarded as an auteur of video games,[2] he developed a strong passion for action/adventure cinema and literature during his childhood and adolescence. In 1986, he was hired by Konami, for which he designed and wrote Metal Gear (1987) for the MSX2, a game that laid the foundations for stealth games and the Metal Gear series, his best known and most appreciated works. The title that consecrated him as one of the most acclaimed video game designers is Metal Gear Solid (1998) for PlayStation. He is also known for producing the Zone of the Enders series, as well as writing and designing Snatcher (1988) and Policenauts (1994), graphic adventure games regarded for their cinematic presentation.

In 2005, Kojima founded Kojima Productions, a software house controlled by Konami, and by 2011, he was appointed vice president of Konami Digital Entertainment.
In 2015, Kojima Productions split from Konami, becoming an independent studio. Their first game was Death Stranding, which released in 2019.
Kojima has also contributed to Rolling Stone, writing columns about the similarities and differences between films and video games.
On November 10, 2019, Kojima was awarded two Guinness World Records for most followed video game director on Twitter and Instagram.

Hiroshi Yamauchi (Hepburn: Yamauchi Hiroshi, 7 November 1927 – 19 September 2013) was a Japanese businessman.
He was the third president of Nintendo, joining the company in 1949 until stepping down on 31 May 2002, to be succeeded by Satoru Iwata. During his 53-year tenure, Yamauchi transformed Nintendo from a hanafuda card-making company that had been active solely in Japan into a multibillion-dollar video game publisher and global conglomerate.

In April 2013, Forbes estimated Yamauchis net worth at $2.1 billion; he was the 13th richest person in Japan and the 491st richest in the world. In 2008, Yamauchi was Japans wealthiest person with a fortune at that time estimated at $7.8 billion.
At the time of his death, Yamauchi was the largest shareholder at Nintendo.

Howard Charles Lincoln (born February 14, 1940) is an American lawyer and businessman, known primarily for being the former Chairman of Nintendo of America and the former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Seattle Mariners baseball team, representing absentee majority owner Hiroshi Yamauchi until Yamauchi died on September 19, 2013

Jack Tramiel (/trəˈmɛl/ trə-MEL; born Idek Trzmiel; December 13, 1928 – April 8, 2012) was a Polish American businessman and Holocaust survivor, best known for founding Commodore International.
The Commodore PET, Commodore VIC-20 and Commodore 64 are some home computers produced while he was running the company.
Tramiel later formed Atari Corporation after he purchased the remnants of the original Atari, Inc. from its parent company.

The Microvision was designed by Jay Smith, the engineer who would later design the Vectrex gaming console

Alfonso John Romero (born October 28, 1967)[1] is an American director, designer, programmer, and developer in the video game industry.
He is best known as a co-founder of id Software and designer for many of their games, including Wolfenstein 3D, Dangerous Dave, Hexen, Doom, Doom II and Quake.
His game designs and development tools, along with new programming techniques created and implemented by id Softwares lead programmer John D. Carmack, led to a mass popularization of the first-person shooter, or FPS, in the 1990s.
He is credited with coining the FPS multiplayer term deathmatch.

In the 1960s, Lou Ottens, then head of product development at the Belgian Hasselt branch of the Eindhoven company Philips, developed the cassette tape.
In previous years, Ottens was annoyed with green and yellow tape recorders with the large reels and felt that something more user-friendly and especially something smaller should be replaced.

Mario is a character in the Mario video game franchise, owned by Nintendo and created by Japanese video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto. Acting as the companys mascot, as well as being the eponymous protagonist of the series, Mario has appeared in over 200 video games since his creation. Depicted as a short, pudgy, Italian plumber who resides in the Mushroom Kingdom, his adventures generally center upon rescuing Princess Peach from the Koopa villain Bowser. Marios fraternal twin brother and sidekick is Luigi.

With more than 600 million units sold worldwide, the overall Mario franchise is the best-selling video game franchise of all time.[12][13] Outside of the Super Mario platform series, other Mario genres include the Mario Kart racing series, sports games such as the Mario Tennis and Mario Golf franchises, role-playing games such as Mario & Luigi, Super Mario RPG, and Paper Mario, and educational games such as Mario Is Missing!, Marios Time Machine, and Mario Teaches Typing. The franchise has branched into several media, including television shows, film, comics, and licensed merchandise. Mario has been voiced by Charles Martinet since 1990.

Service Games of Japan was founded by Marty Bromley (an American) to import pinball games to Japan for use on American military bases.

Masayuki Uemura (Uemura Masayuki, 20 June 1943 – 6 December 2021) was a Japanese engineer, video game producer, and professor. He was known for his work as an employee of Nintendo from 1971 to 2004, most notably for serving as a key factor in the development of the Nintendo Entertainment System.

A former employee of Sharp Corporation, Uemura joined Nintendo in 1971 working with Gunpei Yokoi and Genyo Takeda on solar cell technology for the Laser Clay Shooting System arcade game.

After becoming General Manager of Nintendo R&D2, Uemura served as the lead architect for the Nintendo Entertainment System and Super NES game consoles.
He retired from Nintendo in 2004 and became director for the Center for Game Studies at Ritsumeikan University.

Nintendo of America

Nolan Kay Bushnell (born February 5, 1943) is an American businessman and electrical engineer.
He established Atari, Inc. and the Chuck E. Cheeses Pizza Time Theatre chain.
Bushnell has been inducted into the Video Game Hall of Fame and the Consumer Electronics Association Hall of Fame, received the BAFTA Fellowship and the Nations Restaurant News Innovator of the Year award, and was named one of Newsweeks 50 Men Who Changed America.
Bushnell has started more than twenty companies and is one of the founding fathers of the video game industry. He is on the board of Anti-Aging Games.

Nolan is credited with Bushnells Law, an aphorism about games easy to learn and difficult to master being rewarding.

Paco Suárez comenzó programando para el Sinclair ZX81 trabajando para la casa Indescomp.
En 1983, Suárez presenta a dicho Indescomp dos programas, siendo uno de ellos La Pulga, desarrollado para ese modelo y que sería finalmente comercializado.

Ya como trabajador de Indescomp, recibe el encargo de trabajar en la versión para ZX Spectrum​ junto a otro programador, Paco Portalo.

Publicado inicialmente en Reino Unido como Bugaboo (The flea), llegó a ser n.º 1 para la prensa especializada

Paul Gardner Allen (January 21, 1953 – October 15, 2018) was an American who created Microsoft with Bill Gates.
He was the fifth richest person in the United States. He lived in Mercer Island, Washington.

Allen was also the outright owner of two sports teams, and was part-owner of a third. He fully owned the Seattle Seahawks of the NFL and the Portland Trail Blazers of the NBA. He was a minority owner of Seattle Sounders FC in Major League Soccer.

Allen died from septic shock caused by non-Hodgkin lymphoma on October 15, 2018 in Seattle, Washington at the age of 65.

José María Ponce Saiz (Madrid, 1950 - Madrid, 23 de abril de 2015) fue un ilustrador español conocido por su trabajo en el Diario El País, Cambio 16, MicroHobby, Santillana y Anaya.

Uno de sus principales señas de identidad es su firma Ponce que esconde en ricones peculiares recurriendo en ocasiones a jeroglíficos y acertijos.

Ralph Henry Baer (born Rudolf Heinrich Baer; March 8, 1922 – December 6, 2014) was a German-American inventor, game developer, and engineer.

Baers family fled Germany just before World War II and Baer served the American war effort, gaining an interest in electronics shortly thereafter. Through several jobs in the electronics industry, he was working as an engineer at Sanders Associates (now BAE Systems) in Nashua, NH, when he conceived the idea of playing games on a television screen around 1966.
With support of his employers, he worked through several prototypes until he arrived at a Brown Box that would later become the blueprint for the first home video game console, licensed by Magnavox as the Magnavox Odyssey. Baer continued to design several other consoles and computer game units, including contributing to design of the Simon electronic game. Baer continued to work in electronics until his death in 2014, with over 150 patents to his name.

Baer is considered the Father of Video Games due to his many contributions to games and helping to spark the video game industry in the latter half of the 20th century.

Raymond Edward Kassar (January 2, 1928 – December 10, 2017) was president, and later CEO, of Atari Inc. from 1978 to 1983. He had previously been executive vice-president of Burlington Industries, the worlds largest textile company at the time, and president of its Burlington House division. A member of the Board of Directors, Kassar had spent over thirty years at Burlington.

Richard Matthew Stallman , also known by his initials, rms,is an American free software movement activist and programmer.
He campaigns for software to be distributed in such a manner, so that its users receive the freedoms to use, study, distribute, and modify that software. Software that ensures these freedoms is termed free software.
Stallman launched the GNU Project, founded the Free Software Foundation, developed the GNU Compiler Collection and GNU Emacs, and wrote the GNU General Public License.

Roberta Williams (born February 16, 1953) is an American video game designer, writer, and a co-founder of Sierra On-Line (later known as Sierra Entertainment), who developed her first game while living in Simi Valley, California.
She is most famous for her work in the field of graphic adventure games with titles such as Mystery House, the Kings Quest series, and Phantasmagoria.
She is married to Ken Williams and retired in 1999.
Roberta Williams is one of the most influential PC game designers of the 1980s and 1990s, and has been credited with creating the graphic adventure genre.

Jonathan Seamus Blackley (born 1967) is an American video game designer and former agent with Creative Artists Agency representing video game creators.
He is best known for creating and designing the Original Xbox in 2001.

Shigeru Miyamoto (pronounced [mijamoto ɕiɡeɾɯ]; born November 16, 1952) is a Japanese video game designer, producer and game director at Nintendo, where he serves as one of its representative directors.
He is the creator of some of the most acclaimed and best-selling game franchises of all time, including Mario and The Legend of Zelda.

Born in Sonobe, Japan, he graduated from Kanazawa Municipal College of Industrial Arts. He originally sought a career as a manga artist, until developing an interest in video games.
With the help of his father, he joined Nintendo in 1977 after impressing then-president Hiroshi Yamauchi with his toys.
He became the companys first artist and helped create art for the arcade game Sheriff, and was later tasked with creating a new arcade unit for the company. This eventually led to the 1981 game Donkey Kong.

Miyamoto went on to create both Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda, which became massive successes for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES).
The games helped Nintendo and the NES to dominate the console game market, especially after the video game crash of 1983.
His games have been flagships of every Nintendo video game console, from the arcade machines of the late 1970s to the present day. He managed Nintendos Entertainment Analysis & Development software division, which developed many of the companys first-party titles.
As a result of Nintendo president Satoru Iwatas death in July 2015, Miyamoto took on the role of acting president alongside Genyo Takeda until being formally appointed as the companys Creative Fellow a few months later.

Resident Evil

Steve Ballmer was the CEO of Microsoft Corporation from January 2000 to May 2014.
He is the owner of the NBA team the Los Angeles Clippers after Donald Sterling was fired.
In 2014 that he stepped down as Microsoft CEO.
He is the second recorded person to become a billionaire in U.S. dollars based on stock options received as an employee of a corporation in which he was not the founder or related to a founder.
In November 2023, Bloomberg Billionaires Index estimated his personal wealth at around $122 billion, making him the fifth-richest person in the world.

Space War

Brothers Tim and Chris Stamper are British entrepreneurs who founded the video game companies Ultimate Play the Game and Rare. They first worked together on arcade conversion kits, which were licensed to companies, but later became developers for the ZX Spectrum home computer in the early 1980s. Chris programmed the games, while Tim designed the graphics. They found success as Ultimate with games including Jetpac and Knight Lore. After reverse engineering the Nintendo Entertainment System and deciding to shift their focus to console development, the brothers founded Rare in the mid-1980s. They became Nintendos first major Western developer, for whom they developed licensed games and ports. Over the next two decades, Rare enjoyed a close relationship with Nintendo and developed multiple major titles for the company, including Donkey Kong Country and GoldenEye 007. Microsoft acquired Rare in 2002, and the brothers left the company in 2007. After spending several years out of the public eye, the brothers are currently planning new ventures.

The Stampers are taciturn toward the press and known for their work ethic and promotion of inter-team competition at Rare. They enjoyed a fervent fandom in the 1980s, were among the most influential developers of the 1990s, and were named Development Legends at the video game industry trade magazine Develops 2015 awards.

CEO of Hasbro Interactive, Atari, Games.com

Easter Egg

William Alfred Higinbotham (October 22, 1910 – November 10, 1994) was an American physicist.
A member of the team that developed the first nuclear bomb, he later became a leader in the nonproliferation movement.
He also has a place in the history of video games for his 1958 creation of Tennis for Two, the first interactive analog computer games and one of the first electronic games to use a graphical display.

Yuji Naka (中 裕司, Naka Yūji, Eugene Knacker) born September 17, 1965 is a Japanese video game programmer, designer, and producer who was the former head of Sonic Team, where he was the lead programmer of the original Sonic the Hedgehog series of games on the Sega Mega Drive.
With Sonic Team, Naka also led development on games including Nights into Dreams (1996), Burning Rangers (1998), Sonic Adventure (1998), and Phantasy Star Online (2000).
In 2006, he left Sega to found Prope, an independent game company.
In January 2018, he joined Square Enix, where he is directing Balan Wonderworld.