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 In a year from now, people will ask you where you were when Skyrim went on sale.

Gaming has always had it's celebrities. The very first one I believe is Sir Clive Sinclair. Though it must be noted that he never directly was involved with games. He was the guy that made home-computing genuinely affordable with very accessible little computers (read, oversized calculators with extras bolted on), which allowed people to write programs complete with graphics (vector and sprite) and have very crude animated games to waste an afternoon with. Without Sir Clive Sinclair, I don't think we would be gaming like we would today. We would still game, none the less... Sadly, Sir Clive Sinclair was generally laughed away and his struggle to be taken seriously was his undoing. Still, even today I see things and can't help but think: Sir Clive would approve!

There are others... Jeff Minter, the sheepherding hippie who learned himself Mnemonics in an afternoon and went on to code "Attack of the Mutant Camels", all in a day's time. According to legend. His status as game-guru was established based on that game alone and he would never relinguish it. Though the musical-shooter he coded for XBL-Arcade was utter bullshit, Jeff Minter is still the very first true games-dev.

Without Sir Clive and Jeff Minter, I doubt if I would ever had taken up coding and sprite-animation back then. Don't see me as a programmer though, I went on to become an activist and later on enlisted in her Majesty's Army. I never had the time to build on what I had learned and the time I did had with my computer I much rather filled with gaming.

Other celebrities from yor I can think of are Sid Meyer, Bill Stealy, Al Lowe, Will Wright (I wouldn't call him a celebrity anymore. Sell out is a better term.), the Code-brothers who later went on to found Codemasters and Peter Molineaux.

With the exception of Bill Stealy, who passed away a few years back, all of them are still kicking, though I don't know what Al Lowe is doing nowadays. Maybe he went on to persue his other passion, playing the saxophone... (Actually, I googled him and it turns out he now owns a humor/joke site where he still clings on to old glory, tries to sell a phone-app that tells you jokes so you don't have to read them. It looks pretty run-down and poor Al never got a single "Digg"... I feel kinda bad for him. Those of you who can "Digg" help him out for old time's sake. http://www.allowe.com/. Gotta respect a man who keeps updating a derelict house...)

But they are still celebrities of gaming in my book. 

But after friday I think we'll have our very first Superstar of Gaming. I'll come right out and say it: Todd Howard.

There, I said it. You've read it here first, folks!