Pacific Novelty
California · early 1980s
Brian D. Semler
President in contemporary 1981 reporting; described Pacific Novelty’s route from distribution and operation into manufacturing; credited as executive producer on Thief.
Read in Pacific Novelty →Bernie Stolar
Remembered Pacific Novelty’s formation in later first-person interviews and is credited as director on Thief; later became a major executive elsewhere in the game industry.
Read in Pacific Novelty →Philip / Phillip Lieberman
Connected with Pacific Novelty development work; credited as writer and screenplay author on Thief and associated with Deep Death / Shark Attack.
Read in Pacific Novelty →Bill Cravens
Humorously credited for “stunts” on Thief and connected in later industry-history material with Pacific Novelty’s executive side.
Read in Pacific Novelty →Robert Meagher
Named in Thief’s movie-style credits for “cinematography,” preserving a contributor name that might otherwise have vanished from the record.
Read in Pacific Novelty →Francisco Pflaum
Later collected industry-history material attributes sound-design work to him. Arcade Side B keeps the attribution qualified because title-specific documentation has not yet been located.
Read the qualified evidence →Elcon Industries
Michigan · 1970s–early 1980s
Andre R. Dubel
Named as sales manager in 1976 and 1979 directories, as president in a 1977 directory, and again as president in later 1980–1982 evidence.
Read in Elcon Industries →Joyce DeVries
Named as president in 1976 and 1979 directory evidence and identified as an Elcon employee in a 1978 Play Meter photograph.
Read in Elcon Industries →Thomas Tol
Listed as Elcon’s general manager in a June 1980 Billboard directory alongside Andre R. Dubel as president.
Read in Elcon Industries →Don Suwinski
Listed as Elcon’s general manager by Play Meter in March 1982, during the company’s later documented operating period.
Read in Elcon Industries →Ramtek Corporation
California · 1970s
Charles McEwan
Consistently identified with Ramtek’s formation and named president of Ramtek Games in 1976 trade reporting.
Read in Ramtek →John Metzler
Identified with Charles McEwan in Ramtek’s formation as the company emerged from the Bay Area display-electronics business.
Read in Ramtek →Jack Teeters
Named among Ramtek’s founders in the company’s early formation history.
Read in Ramtek →Chuck Arnold
Identified in a May 1976 Play Meter report as Ramtek Games’ vice-president of marketing/games.
Read in Ramtek →Data East
Japan / United States · 1976–2003
Tetsuo Fukuda
Engineer who founded Data East on April 20, 1976; contemporary retrospective reporting also identifies him as company president.
Read in Data East →Bob Lloyd
Named Data East USA president in 1985 trade coverage while discussing the early performance of Commando.
Read in Data East →Jay Malpas
Game credits and later reporting identify him as Data East USA’s marketing manager during the company’s final U.S. years.
Read in Data East →Michael Meyers
Independent game credits place him at the head of U.S. product development during the 1994–1996 period.
Read in Data East →Mirco Games
United States / West Germany · 1970s–early 1980s
Richard N. Raymond
Later became Mirco president in the United States while continuing to oversee the German operation; listed as managing director of Mirco Games GmbH in 1979.
Read in Mirco Games →John H. Raymond
Listed as sales manager of the Neu-Isenburg, West Germany operation in a 1979 international trade directory.
Read in Mirco Games →For-Play Manufacturing
California · 1972–1975 documented product activity
William D. Lewis
A contemporary 1972 Cash Box report identifies him as For-Play president and an industrial engineer.
Read in For-Play →Robert Harp
Named as a design engineer when For-Play’s organization was reported in 1972.
Read in For-Play →Harry Bieker
Named alongside Robert Harp as a design engineer in contemporary coverage of For-Play’s formation.
Read in For-Play →SEMiCOM
South Korea · 1990s–2001 conventional arcade line
Jeon Jae-yeon
Contemporary Korean trade reporting identifies him as SEMiCOM’s representative; game credits repeatedly place him in executive-producer and director roles.
Read in SEMiCOM →Han Seung Hoon
Recurring SEMiCOM credit across design and illustration work, including game design on Hatch Catch.
Read in SEMiCOM →Baek Seung Ki
Credited as main programmer on Hatch Catch and in programming on the first Cookie & Bibi.
Read in SEMiCOM →Kim Jin Woo
Credited in programming on Hatch Catch and among the programmers preserved in Hyper Pacman’s staff list.
Read in SEMiCOM →This index will grow with the archive.
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