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Carol Shaw is an American video game designer. She is best known for creating the Atari 2600 vertically scrolling shooter game River Raid for Activision. She worked for Atari, Inc. from 1978 to 1980,
Shaw in 1983
Platinum River Raid cartridge, awarded June 27, 1983, for sales of 1,000,000 units
Shaw with some of her awards in 1984
Activision
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Activision Publishing, Inc. is an American video game publisher based in Santa Monica, California. It is the publishing business for its parent company, Activision Blizzard, and consists of several su
Carol Shaw
…born 1955) is an American video game designer. She is best known for creating the Atari 2600 vertically scrolling shooter game River Raid (1982) for Activision. She worked for Atari, Inc. from 1978 to 1980, where she designed multiple games including 3-D Tic-Tac-Toe (1978) and Video Checkers (1980), both for…
Current headquarters in Santa Monica in 2025 (shared with parent company Activision Blizzard)
Co-founder David Crane in 2013
Carol Shaw, designer of River Raid, with a 1983 plaque marking 500,000 copies sold
Mediagenic's former headquarters in Menlo Park, c. 2021