Eugene Jarvis
Game Developer
Class of 2015 Inductee
Eugene Peyton Jarvis is a game designer and video game programmer, known for producing pinball machines for Williams Electronics and video games for Atari.
Most notable among his works are the seminal arcade video games Defender and Robotron: 2084 in the early 1980s, and the Cruis’n series of racing games for Nintendo in the 1990s.
He co-founded Vid Kidz in the early 1980s and currently leads his own development studio, Raw Thrills.
In 2008, Jarvis was named DePaul University’s first Game Designer in Residence. His involvement at DePaul’s Game Development program includes lectures, supervision of game projects, and input on curriculum. He was recognized as the NY-AMOA Man of the Year in 2009 and he received the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences Pioneer Award in 2013.
In 2022, Jarvis and his wife, Sasha Gerritson, gifted DePaul the university’s largest ever gift, in support of the institution’s College of Computing and Digital Media. In recognition of the couple’s generosity and dedicated leadership, the college has been renamed the Eugene P. Jarvis College of Computing and Digital Media.
Jarvis is the only video game designer to have his work featured on a U.S. postage stamp — two 1980’s era children are depicted playing Defender on the video games stamp for the “Celebrate the Century” series.
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97 credits on 53 games on Mobygames:
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International Video Game Hall of Fame Class of 2015 Induction:
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