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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carol Shaw has received more than 150,300 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Carol Shaw is the 26th most popular game designer (up from 42nd in 2019), the 7,112th most popular biography from United States (up from 10,990th in 2019) and the 6th most popular American Game Designer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 150k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.39

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.00

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.28

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among GAME DESIGNERS

Among game designers, Carol Shaw ranks 26 out of 77. Before her are Hidetaka Miyazaki, Peter Molyneux, Reiner Knizia, Dave Arneson, Yu Suzuki, and Kazunori Yamauchi. After her are Eiji Aonuma, Will Wright, Scott Cawthon, Masahiro Sakurai, John Carmack, and Hideki Kamiya.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Carol Shaw ranks 312. Before her are S. Jaishankar, Deborra-Lee Furness, Claudia Roth, Hippolyte Girardot, Ünal Üstel, and Frankie Knuckles. After her are Zbigniew Rau, Chen Quanguo, Susan Dougan, David Twohy, K. Eric Drexler, and Yitang Zhang.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Carol Shaw ranks 7,112 out of 20,380. Before her are Kay Sage (1898), Jerry Van Dyke (1931), Mary Whiton Calkins (1863), Alexandra Hedison (1969), Rose Marie (1923), and Frank O'Hara (1926). After her are Craig Jones (1972), Jason Segel (1980), Charlotte Rae (1926), Edwin Hedley (1864), Al Matthews (1942), and Nancy Olson (1928).

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Among GAME DESIGNERS In United States

Among game designers born in United States, Carol Shaw ranks 6. Before her are Jeff Kinney (1971), Gabe Newell (1962), Lizzie Magie (1866), Gary Gygax (1938), and Dave Arneson (1947). After her are Will Wright (1960), Scott Cawthon (1971), John Carmack (1970), John Romero (1967), Steve Jackson (1953), and Ed Boon (1964).

American born Game Designers

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