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Doug Littlejohns
Red Storm

Not many game industry executives can claim to have commanded a nuclear powered hunter killer submarine and be twice decorated by Queen Elizabeth II, but Doug Littlejohns can. As the president of Morrisville, North Carolina-based Red Storm Entertainment, Littlejohns, working hand-in-hand with acclaimed author Tom Clancy, has helped develop hugely successful tactical games such as Rainbow Six. For all the talk about the convergence between Hollywood and games, Doug Littlejohns is one of the few who can claim to have success at blending the two media.

1. If there were one moment from gaming you'd put in a time capsule to represent the 20th century of interactive entertainment, what moment would it be and why?

Shadow Company, a military squad-based game with a comic book look and feel, is due from Red Storm in 2000.

Doug: There is an abundance of moments and developments to choose from. I have three favorites. One is the coin op arcade boom of the '80s that created a generation of people with an enthusiasm for gaming. This then translated into the home because our industry set out to try to replicate the quality of the arcade experience on smaller machines.

Another is the emergence of the first-person shooter that let the player begin to capture the feeling that he was free to walk around in a realistic 3D world via a small screen. That was the first time the gamer could begin to experience the same reality (if I can call it that) that you get from a movie.

However, on balance, I believe that the launch of the PlayStation was the pivotal moment that really led to the first widespread penetration of a gaming machine into the mass market and into millions of homes.

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