Jez San

British businessman (born 1966) Jez SanOBEBorn (1966-03-29) 29 March 1966 (age 60)OccupationsGame programmerentrepreneur Jeremy Elliott "Jez" San OBE (born 29 March 1966) is an English game programmer and entrepreneur who founded Argonaut Software as a teenager in the 1980s. He is best known for the 1986 Atari ST game Starglider and helping to design the Super FX chip used in Star Fox for the Super NES. Early career San received his first computer, a TRS-80, at the age of twelve in 1978 from his father, who had a career in shipping the belongings of immigrants at the time. San became interested in video game development at a young age after playing a multi-user dungeon (MUD) in the 1970s. Within a year, he taught himself assembly language for several microprocessors.[citation needed] San founded Argonaut Software as a teenager in high school at JFS to get software consulting jobs with large companies.[citation needed] He worked on security systems with British Telecom and Acorn. In 1984, he started developing his first game, Skyline Attack for the Commodore 64, and also co-wrote a book, Quantum Theory, about the Sinclair QL. He became a wizard (admin) at Essex MUD, the world's firs