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Originally an Atari employee, Carol Shaw is said to be the first female video game designer (for her unreleased ''Polo'' game in 1978,〔(VC&G Interview: Carol Shaw, Female Video Game Pioneer ), interview by Benj Edwards.〕 and ''3-D Tic-Tac-Toe'' game in 1979). Shaw's official job title at Atari was Microprocessor Software Engineer.〔http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/800〕 Later she joined Activision, where she programmed her best-known game, ''River Raid''.〔Atari: 2600: River Raid. The Internet Archive Software Collection. ret. Mar 2014. https://archive.org/details/atari_2600_river_raid_1982_activision_carol_shaw_ax-020_ax-020-04〕 According to the manual of ''River Raid'', she is also a “scholar in the field of Computer Science.” With Keith Brewster she worked on the Atari Basic Reference Manual.〔''(Atari BASIC and PET Microsoft BASIC. A BASIC Comparison )'' by Joretta Klepfer cites the draft as a source.〕 She left Atari in 1980 to work for Tandem Computers. After 16 months she was contacted by an employee of Activision (possibly Alan Miller) with a job offer which would include stock options. She also attended an interview at Imagic but they did not offer her a position at the company on account of a lack of experience in writing action games. Shaw joined Activision in 1982.〔http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/800〕 Carol Shaw left Activision in 1984 after designing ''Happy Trails'' for the Intellivision and ''River Raid'' for the Atari 800 and Atari 5200. Her other credits include ''Video Checkers'' in 1981 and ''3-D Tic-Tac-Toe'' in 1980 for the Atari 2600. She also worked on ''Super Breakout''. From 1984-90 Shaw worked at her former employer, Tandem. She took early retirement in 1990 and subsequently did some voluntary work including a position at the Foresight Institute. She has credited the success of River Raid as being a significant factor in enabling her to retire early.〔http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/800〕 Shaw lives in California and has been married to Ralph Merkle, a researcher in nanotechnology since 1983.〔(My wife is Carol Shaw. ), Ralph C. Merkle〕〔http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/800〕 ==Early life and education== Born in 1955, Shaw was born and raised in Palo Alto, California.〔http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/800〕 Her father was a mechanical engineer and worked at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. Shaw first became interested in computers in high school when she used a computer for the first time and discovered she could play text-based games on the system. Shaw attended the University of California, Berkeley and graduated with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 1977. She went on to complete a master's degree in Computer Science at Berkeley.〔http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/800〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Carol Shaw (video game designer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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