Carol Shaw
Carol Shaw (born 1955) is an American video game designer and programmer. She is one of the earliest women to work as a programmer in the commercial video game industry. While at Atari, Inc. from 1978 to 1980, she designed Atari VCS titles including 3-D Tic-Tac-Toe (1978) and Video Checkers (1980). She is best known for the Atari 2600 vertically scrolling shooter River Raid (1982), published by Activision.
After leaving game development in 1984, Shaw returned to Tandem Computers and took early retirement in 1990. In 2017, she received the Industry Icon Award at The Game Awards.
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