# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bill-kunkel
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:02:55.085Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bill-kunkel"
name: "Bill Kunkel"
slug: "bill-kunkel"
description: "Bill Kunkel was a graphic novelist as well as pioneering professional wrestling and video game journalist and critic from the 1970s until his death in the early 2010s. During his time working with the video game industry, Kunkel authored numerous strategy guides, co-designed several video games, served as an expert witness in three court cases, and taught courses in Game Design for the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). Kunkel served as the executive editor of Electronic Games Magazine and the editor-in-chief of Tips & Tricks magazine, writing columns and comics for several magazines and game sites. He often wrote under nicknames, the most common of which were \"The Game Doctor\", and \"Potshot\"."
tagline: "Video game journalist (1950–2011)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1950-07-21"
deathDate: "2011-09-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.35
  momentum:             1.976298361798536
  historical:           6.338985333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Канкел, Билл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%86%D9%83%D9%84"
    title: "بيل كونكل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%86%D9%83%D9%84_(%D8%B5%D8%AD%D9%81%D9%89)"
    title: "بيل كونكل (صحفى)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Kunkel_(journalist)"
    title: "Bill Kunkel (journalist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Kunkel"
    title: "Bill Kunkel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Kunkel"
    title: "Bill Kunkel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Kunkel"
    title: "Bill Kunkel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4212497"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump