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Lifetime Achievement Award for Jarvis
Raw Thrills' Eugene Jarvis has picked up the Game Developers Choice Award for Lifetime Achievement, an honour bestowed by the International Game Developers Association (IGDA) at its fifth annual ceremony held in San Francisco, USA earlier this month. Jarvis is responsible for a string of arcade video hits including Defender, Robotron: 2084, NARC and the Cruis'n series. He received the prize in recognition of his 'lifelong contribution to the development of games and the culture of gaming'. In addition to creating some of the industry's greatest classics, Jarvis continues to develop interactive entertainment with his present design studio, Raw Thrills. In 2004, he released two action thrillers, Target: Terror and The Fast and the Furious, distributed throughout Europe, Africa and the Middle East by Namco Europe/Brent Sales. Recipients of the award are selected by the Choice Awards Advisory Board, comprising of a diverse set of developers from across the globe. Past recipients of this award include: Mark Cerny, Gunpei Yokoi, Yuji Naka and Will Wright.
"It is a great honour to receive this award and to join the ranks of some of the industry's most revered game creators," said Mr Jarvis. "We are clearly at the threshold of a new frontier and I can't wait to see how our community will forge ahead into the new era of game development." Jason Della Rocca, Executive Director IGDA said, "Eugene Jarvis is one of a handful of names that comes up again and again as the inspiration for other game developers. He understands what is fundamentally fun and continues to impress us with his endless creativity and talent."
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