Carol Shaw
American video game designer
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Born 1955 · age 71United States
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Updated 2026-06-24
Carol Shaw is an American video game designer and programmer. She is one of the earliest women to work as a programmer in the commercial video game industry. While at Atari, Inc. from 1978 to 1980, she designed Atari VCS titles including 3-D Tic-Tac-Toe (1978) and Video Checkers (1980). She is best known for the Atari 2600 vertically scrolling shooter River Raid (1982), published by Activision.
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