Vince Desi
aka:
Vinny Desiderio,
Vince Desiderio
Moby ID: 84901
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Vince Desi's held a variety of jobs: driving a cab, running a recording studio, throwing parties at New York clubs, working as a headhunter on Wall Street.
While scouting for workers in the computer field, Desi got involved with Atari, the company that first brought game consoles into homes in the late 1970s. He struck up a friendship with one of his recruits, Mike Riedel, who had recently dropped out of the Rochester Institute of Technology. When Atari ran into financial problems, Desi helped Riedel launch a company, Riedel Software Productions, to create computer games for licensed properties. Riedel handled the creative end of RSP, overseeing programming, artwork and game design, while Desi handled business matters.
The first gig was designing a Spy vs. Spy game for Mad magazine in 1985. That success led to a steady stream of work designing children's games for Sesame Street, Hanna-Barbera, Walt Disney, Warner Bros. and the World Wrestling Federation, among others.
In 1992 he relocated to Tucson, AZ, where in 1997 he and several key players started the company known as RWS, aka Running with Scissors, to make a game designed for adults. From these beginnings, the game Postal was created.
Credited on 13 games
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| Postal: Brain Damaged (2022, Windows) | Executive Producer |
| Postal 4: No Regerts (2019, Windows) | Chief Rod Officer |
| Postal: Redux (2016, Windows) | Executive Producer |
| Postal²: Paradise Lost (2015, Windows) | Game Design |
| Postal III (2011, Windows) | Everyone Else |
| Postal²: Apocalypse Weekend (2004, Windows) | Executive Producer |
| Postal²: Share the Pain (2003, Windows) | Executive Producer |
| Postal² (2003, Windows) | Executive Producer |
| Postal Plus (2001, Windows) | Executive Producer |
| Postal (1997, Windows) | Executive Producer |
| Tom and Jerry (1993, SNES) | Produced by |
| Beethoven's 2nd (1993, SNES) | Produced by |
| Alter Ego (1986, DOS) | Special Thanks To |
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Chief Rod Officer
2019 Oct
Frequent Collaborators
People- 8 games with Mike Jaret-Schachter
- 8 games with Rick Hunter
- 7 games with Michael J. Riedel
- 7 games with Steve Wik
- 6 games with Joshua Leichliter
- 6 games with Marcus Davis
- 5 games with Jon Merchant
- 5 games with Corey Candray
- 4 games with Jonathan Isabelle
- 4 games with Bob Richardson
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Companies
- 10 games with Running With Scissors Studios LLC
- 7 games with Valve Corporation
- 5 games with Epic Games, Inc.
- 5 games with Akella
- 3 games with hell-tech
- 3 games with Jordan Freeman Group, LLC
- 2 games with NVIDIA Corporation
- 2 games with RSP, Inc.
- 2 games with GOG Poland Sp. z o.o.
- 2 games with Tri Synergy, Inc.
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