# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/howard-scott-warshaw
# Generated: 2026-09-07T18:02:06.528Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/howard-scott-warshaw"
name: "Howard Scott Warshaw"
slug: "howard-scott-warshaw"
description: "Howard Scott Warshaw, also known as HSW, is an American psychotherapist and former game designer. He worked at Atari, Inc. in the early 1980s, where he designed and programmed the Atari 2600 games Yars' Revenge, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial."
tagline: "American game designer and psychotherapist (born 1957)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Howard_Scott_Warshaw%2C_2020_(gvtddI1JLDY).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: "1957-07-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.86156
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: 223
platforms:
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    url:       "http://onceuponatari.com/"
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    title: "Howard Scott Warshaw"
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    title: "Howard Scott Warshaw"
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    title: "Howard Scott Warshaw"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump