River Raid print advert / Illustration of a night battle with aircraft. Titles read "RIVER RAID: A FIGHT TO THE FINISH ON THE RIVER OF NO RETURN." Smaller copy describes the player's mission. The box art, a screenshot, and the Activision logo are at the bottom right. / Image credit: Activision
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Carol Shaw

Carol Shaw is an American video game designer who created notable works for Atari and Activision in the 1980s. She was the games industry's first female professional developer. Shaw's Atari 2600 game River Raid was a million seller and is regarded as a classic title of the era.

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Carol Shaw holding her gold River Raid cartridge (cropped) / Portrait of Carol Shaw wearing glasses, a white top, and with long fair hair. This image was cropped and uploaded to Wikipedia. / Image credit: Carol B Shaw / This work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0
Carol Shaw
Kim Swift at the Game Developers Conference in 2010 / Sorry, we don't have accessible text for this image :( / Image credit: Official GDC / This work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0
Kim Swift
Hidetaka Miyazaki color portrait / Close-up colour portrait photo of Hidetaka Miyazaki, a Japanese man wearing glasses and a polo shirt. / Image credit: FromSoftware, Inc.
Hidetaka Miyazaki
Frame from Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration / Sorry, we don't have accessible text for this image :( / Image credit: Atari
Allan Alcorn
Frame from Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration / Sorry, we don't have accessible text for this image :( / Image credit: Atari
Nolan Bushnell
Frame from Oral History of Ted Dabney / An elderly white male wearing glasses / Image credit: Computer History Museum
Samuel Frederick Dabney Jr.
Miyamoto Hints At Pikmin 4 / Shigeru Miyamoto on stage wearing a dark jacket and white T-shirt and holding a red Pikmin plushie. / Image credit: BagoGames / This work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0
Shigeru Miyamoto
Tatsuya Minami shared by PlatinumGames on Twitter / Photo of Tatsuya Minami shared by PlatinumGames on Twitter. / Image credit: PlatinumGames
Tatsuya Minami
Eiji Aonuma at E3 2013 / Sorry, we don't have accessible text for this image :( / Image credit: Jan Graber / This work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0
Eiji Aonuma
Anna Anthropy speaking at GDC 2013. / Sorry, we don't have accessible text for this image :( / Image credit: Official GDC / This work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0
Anna Anthropy
Historical likeness of Danielle Bunten Berry / Sorry, we don't have accessible text for this image :(
Danielle Bunten Berry
GDC 2011 - 3/1 (Day 2) / Sorry, we don't have accessible text for this image :( / Image credit: Official GDC / This work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0
Markus Persson

Game directors

Hidetaka Miyazaki color portrait / Close-up colour portrait photo of Hidetaka Miyazaki, a Japanese man wearing glasses and a polo shirt. / Image credit: FromSoftware, Inc.
Hidetaka Miyazaki
Takashi Tezuka E3 2012 Nintendo Press Conference (cropped) / Sorry, we don't have accessible text for this image :( / Image credit: The Conmunity - Pop Culture Geek / This work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0
Takashi Tezuka
Hideki Kamiya, Hideo Kojima, Tatsuya Minami and Shinji Mikami (cropped) / Sorry, we don't have accessible text for this image :(
Hideki Kamiya
Abebe Tinari (cropped) / Profile photo of Abebe Tinari from the PlatinumGames official blog. Cropped. / Image credit: PlatinumGames Inc.
Abebe Tinari
Eiji Aonuma at E3 2013 / Sorry, we don't have accessible text for this image :( / Image credit: Jan Graber / This work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0
Eiji Aonuma

Game producers

Hidetaka Miyazaki color portrait / Close-up colour portrait photo of Hidetaka Miyazaki, a Japanese man wearing glasses and a polo shirt. / Image credit: FromSoftware, Inc.
Hidetaka Miyazaki
Eiji Aonuma at E3 2013 / Sorry, we don't have accessible text for this image :( / Image credit: Jan Graber / This work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0
Eiji Aonuma
Miyamoto Hints At Pikmin 4 / Shigeru Miyamoto on stage wearing a dark jacket and white T-shirt and holding a red Pikmin plushie. / Image credit: BagoGames / This work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0
Shigeru Miyamoto
Atsushi Inaba (cropped) / Portrait of Atsushi Inaba from the PlatinumGames website. / Image credit: PlatinumGames Inc.
Atsushi Inaba