Peter Molyneux

One of the greatest game designers in the history of the world and the man who pretty much created the God game genre. Peter Molyneux born in Guildford, Surrey started his game design career when he created a text-based business game, Entrepreneur, in 1984. The game failed horribly, causing him to retreat from games design and form a company called Taurus Impex Limited, a company that exported baked beans to the Middle East. After Comodor International mistook his company for being a company that produced networking software he ,instead of correcting the company, decided to fulfill their request and created The Ultimate Database for The Amiga, only correcting them when he presented them with the database. He used the money he made from the database to set up the company Bullfrog, creating massively successful games, such as Populous, Dungeon Keeper and Theme Park. After Bullfrog was aquired by EA he set up a new company, Lionhead Studios. Later creating what are my all time favourite games, Fable and Black &White. As recognition of his contribution to the video game industry, in 2004 he was honoured as a Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) and in 2007 awarded the title of Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Knight of the Order of Arts and of Letters). Peter Molyneux has become infamous for 'over-hyping' his games, but that doesn't deny them of being great games.

His consistency for creating great, massively successful games are why I think Peter Molyneux is The Greatest Games Designer of All Time.