Jim Levy
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Jim Levy, a former record industry executive, met up with four programmers of Atari. These four programmers wanted more recognition and money for their hard work. Jim Levy and these four Atari programmers: David Crane, Alan Miller, Bob Whitehead, and Larry Kaplan co-founded Activision, with Jim Levy as the CEO. Jim Levy's strategy was to promote their programmers like rock stars. This philosophy worked, and it brought Activision to a multi-million dollar company.
This would not last forever, as video games started to involve more than one person, it became tougher to keep this strategy. In 1986, Jim Levy resigned his position because his style of recognition became less effective, and Bruce Davis took over as CEO of Activision.
Credited on 4 games
| Activision Hits Remixed (2006, PSP) | An Incredibly Huge Thanks To |
| Activision Anthology: Remix Edition (2003, Windows) | Incredibly Huge Thanks |
| Activision Anthology (2002, PlayStation 2) | An Incredibly Huge Thanks to |
| FireTeam (1998, Windows) | Special Thanks to |
Frequent Collaborators
People- 3 games with Rex E. Bradford
- 3 games with Ken Anderson Jr.
- 3 games with Jim Charne
- 3 games with Matthew Hubbard
- 3 games with Bob Polaro
- 3 games with Bruce Davis
- 3 games with Jessica Stevens
- 3 games with Dave Lamkins
- 3 games with Mike Reidel
- 3 games with Michael Bütepage
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Companies
- 2 games with Activision Publishing, Inc.
- 2 games with Barking Lizards Technologies L.L.C.
- 1 game with Digital Eclipse Software, Inc.
- 1 game with Multitude Inc.
- 1 game with MumboJumbo, LLC
- 1 game with Ignited
- 1 game with Contraband Entertainment, Inc
- 1 game with NBG EDV Handels- und Verlags GmbH
- 1 game with Hamagami/Carroll, Inc.
- 1 game with France Télécom Multimédia
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