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Howard Scott Warshaw

American game designer and psychotherapist (born 1957)

  • Fame47.5
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  • Developers rank#223
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Born 1957 · age 69United States
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Updated 2026-06-24

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.

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