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Game Developers Conference Lifetime Achievement Award recipients
- Hideo KojimaHideo Kojima was born in the Setagaya ward of Tokyo on the 24th of August 1963. His father Kingo worked as a pharmacist and traveled frequently for business.
- Greg ZeschukGregory Zeschuk was born in 1969 and raised in Edmonton, Alberta. He studied medicine at the University of Alberta where he met Ray Muzyka and Augustine Yip.
- Shigeru MiyamotoShigeru Miyamoto was born on the 16th of November 1952 in Sonobe, a small town within Kyoto Prefecture. His family held modest means while his father taught…
- Hironobu SakaguchiHironobu Sakaguchi was born on the 25th of November 1962 in Hitachinaka, a city within Ibaraki Prefecture. His childhood involved finding rock samples in…
- Peter MolyneuxPeter Molyneux began his career in 1982 by distributing and selling floppy disks which contained video games for Atari and the Commodore 64.
- Yoko ShimomuraYoko Shimomura was born on the 19th of October 1967 in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. She began playing piano lessons at the age of four or five years old.
- Tim SchaferTim Schafer was born on the 26th of July 1967 in Sonoma, California. He grew up as the youngest of five children with a father who worked as a doctor and a…
- John RomeroAlfonso John Romero was born on the 28th of October 1967, six weeks premature in Colorado Springs, Colorado. His mother Ginny met his father Alfonso Antonio…