Stephen Clarke-Willson is a computer scientist who was a

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producer and executive producer in the early 1990s who produced a number of hit games.

Summary

From 1990 to 1994, he was the vice-president of

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. He was instrumental in Virgin's acquisition of

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, after which he supervised budgets at Westwood. He supervised the production of titles for the

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and the

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like ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', and '' Disney’s Jungle Book''; also '' The Seventh Guest'' for

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. (He was also the producer of one of the most ridiculed games of all time, '' Color a Dinosaur''.) He published a

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paper, "Applying Game Design to Virtual Environments". Clarke-Willson now works at

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as the Studio Technical Director for ''

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''.

Trivia

*Clarke-Willson arranged and performed "The Bare Necessities Rag" title music for '' Disney’s Jungle Book'' on Genesis and SNES. *He composed the

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theme which was arranged by Larry Kenton and performed by the musicians of the City of Prague Philharmonic and first heard in the video game '' Azurik: Rise of Perathia''. *Created the NES game '' Color a Dinosaur'' for his four-year-old son. It cost $30,000 to produce, was printed on the cheapest cartridges Nintendo offered, and was sold (he thinks) exclusively at Wal-Mart.

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