Carol Shaw (video game designer)
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Originally an Atari employee, Carol Shaw is said to be the first female video game designer (for her 3D Tic-Tac-Toe game in 1979). Later she joined Activision, where she programmed her best known game, River Raid. According to the manual of River Raid, she is also a “scholar in the field of Computer Science.”
With Keith Brewster she worked on the Atari Basic Reference Manual.[1]
[edit] See also
- Dona Bailey, first female coin-op video game designer.
[edit] References
- ^ Atari BASIC and PET Microsoft BASIC. A BASIC Comparison by Joretta Klepfer cites the draft as a source.
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