Dr. Stephen Clarke-Willson, PhD. was a video game producer and executive producer in the early 1990s who produced a number of hit games.

Summary

He supervised the production of titles for the SNES

Super Nintendo Entertainment System

The Super Nintendo Entertainment System is a 16-bit video game console that was released by Nintendo in North America, Europe, Australasia , and South America between 1990 and 1993. In Japan and Southeast Asia, the system is called the , or SFC for short...

 and the Sega Genesis

Sega Mega Drive

The Sega Genesis is a fourth-generation video game console developed and produced by Sega. It was originally released in Japan in 1988 as , then in North America in 1989 as Sega Genesis, and in Europe, Australia and other PAL regions in 1990 as Mega Drive. The reason for the two names is that...

 like Disney's Aladdin

Disney's Aladdin (video game)

Disney's Aladdin is a series of video games based on the 1992 motion picture of the same name. Unlike most cross-platform games, the five versions are each significantly different games rather than all being ports of a single source.-Mega Drive/Genesis version:The game from Virgin based on the 1992...

, Global Gladiators

Global Gladiators

Global Gladiators is a 1992 platform game by Virgin Interactive, originally programmed by David Perry for the Mega Drive/Genesis and eventually ported by other Virgin Interactive teams in Europe...

, Cool Spot

Cool Spot

Cool Spot was a mascot for 7 Up beginning in the late 80s. During this time, the red spot in the 7 Up logo was anthropomorphized: given arms, legs, a mouth, and sunglasses....

, and Disney’s Jungle Book

The Jungle Book (video game)

Walt Disney's The Jungle Book is a series of video games based on the 1967 Disney animated film The Jungle Book, primarily released in 1994. It was first released by Virgin Interactive in 1993 for the Sega Master System...

; also The Seventh Guest

The 7th Guest

The 7th Guest, produced by Trilobyte and released by Virgin Games in 1993, is an FMV-based puzzle video game. It was one of the first computer video games to be released only on CD-ROM. The 7th Guest is a horror story told from the unfolding perspective of the player, as an amnesiac...

for DOS

DOS

DOS, short for "Disk Operating System", is an acronym for several closely related operating systems that dominated the IBM PC compatible market between 1981 and 1995, or until about 2000 if one includes the partially DOS-based Microsoft Windows versions 95, 98, and Millennium Edition.Related...

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

Color a Dinosaur

Color a Dinosaur is an electronic coloring book video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System.-Summary:In the game itself, the player colors various non-threatening dinosaurs by using the provided dinosaur images and palettes. Players can either color using the free form mode or in the automatic...

.)

He was a co-inventor of the Digicel

Disney's Aladdin (video game)

Disney's Aladdin is a series of video games based on the 1992 motion picture of the same name. Unlike most cross-platform games, the five versions are each significantly different games rather than all being ports of a single source.-Mega Drive/Genesis version:The game from Virgin based on the 1992...

 process.

He published a SIGGRAPH

SIGGRAPH

SIGGRAPH is the name of the annual conference on computer graphics convened by the ACM SIGGRAPH organization. The first SIGGRAPH conference was in 1974. The conference is attended by tens of thousands of computer professionals...

 paper, "Applying Game Design to Virtual Environments".

Dr. Clarke-Willson now works at ArenaNet

ArenaNet

ArenaNet is a computer game developer and part of NCsoft Corporation, founded in 2000 by Mike O'Brien, Patrick Wyatt and Jeff Strain and located in Bellevue, Washington...

 as a server programmer for Guild Wars

Guild Wars

Guild Wars is an episodic series of online 3D fantasy role-playing games developed by ArenaNet and published by NCsoft. Although often defined as an MMORPG the developers define it as a CORPG due to significant differences from the MMORPG genre. It provides two main modes of gameplay—a cooperative...

.

Trivia

• Dr. Clarke-Willson arranged and performed "The Bare Necessities Rag" title music for Disney’s Jungle Book
  The Jungle Book (video game)
  Walt Disney's The Jungle Book is a series of video games based on the 1967 Disney animated film The Jungle Book, primarily released in 1994. It was first released by Virgin Interactive in 1993 for the Sega Master System...
  
  on Genesis and SNES.

• He composed the Adrenium Games
  Adrenium Games
  Adrenium Games was a video games developer based out of Kirkland, Washington. The company first formed in 1999, as a studio of Amaze Entertainment. It was announced on November 14, 2006 that Amaze Entertainment would be acquired by Foundation 9 Entertainment....
  
   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
  Azurik: Rise of Perathia
  Azurik: Rise of Perathia is an action-adventure game developed by Adrenium Games and published by Microsoft Game Studios in 2001. Azurik was released early in the Xbox console's life and features a score by game composer Jeremy Soule.-Gameplay:...
  
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External links

• http://www.sega-16.com/2006/03/interview-dr-stephen-clarke-willson/ Interview from Sega-16.com