# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eugene-jarvis
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:00:55.699Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/eugene-jarvis"
name: "Eugene Jarvis"
slug: "eugene-jarvis"
description: "Eugene Peyton Jarvis is an American game designer and video game programmer, known for producing pinball machines for Williams Electronics and video games for Atari. Most notable among his works are the seminal arcade video games Defender and Robotron: 2084 in the early 1980s, and the Cruis'n series of racing games for Nintendo in the 1990s. He co-founded Vid Kidz in the early 1980s and currently leads his own development studio, Raw Thrills. In 2008, Eugene Jarvis was named the first Game Designer in Residence by DePaul University's Game Development program. His family owns the Jarvis Wines company in Napa, California."
tagline: "American game designer and game programmer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/EugeneJarvis_cax2006_brighter.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Developers"
  slug: "developers"
profileType:
  name: "Developer"
  slug: "developer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5482740"
birthDate: "1955-01-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.69
  momentum:             2.444821731748727
  historical:           8.145830666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 202
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eugene_Jarvis"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "يوجين جارفيس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Jarvis"
    title: "Eugene Jarvis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Jarvis"
    title: "Eugene Jarvis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Jarvis"
    title: "Eugene Jarvis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Jarvis"
    title: "Eugene Jarvis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Jarvis"
    title: "Eugene Jarvis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A6%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%82%B9"
    title: "ユージン・ジャーヴィス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Jarvis"
    title: "Eugene Jarvis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q707250"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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