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Name
  
Ken Nicholson


Role
  
Video Game Developer

Ken Nicholson European Equities with Ken Nicholson Mirabaud Asset Management

California Games on the Commodore 64


Ken Nicholson is a video game developer.

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Career

Nicholson is a video game developer and Windows graphics pioneer. He was the founder of GamePC Consortium and inventor of the technology used by Microsoft as the basis for Windows' DirectX graphics.

  • Exidy games: Crossbow, Cheyenne, Combat, Clay Pigeon, Crackshot, Chiller, Spin-A-Ball, Top Secret, Vertigo, Vortex
  • Epyx games: California Games for Commodore 64, The Games: Summer Edition for Commodore 64 and IBM PC
  • Media Vision games: Quantum Gate, Quantum Gate II, Critical Path, Forever Growing Garden
  • Strategic Simulations games: Secret of the Silver Blades for MS-DOS
  • ATI games: Mortal Kombat III for Windows 95, Super Bubsy for Windows 95

    • References

    Ken Nicholson Wikipedia
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