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Ken Nicholson is a video game developer.

Career

Nicholson is a video game developer and Windows graphics pioneer. He was the founder of GamePC Consortium and inventor of the technology used by Microsoft as the basis for Windows' DirectX graphics. Examples include:

• Exidy games: Crossbow, Cheyenne, Combat, Clay Pigeon, Crackshot, Chiller, Spin-A-Ball, Top Secret, Vertigo, Vortex
• Epyx games: California Games for Commodore 64, The Games: Summer Edition for Commodore 64 and IBM PC
• Media Vision games: Quantum Gate, Quantum Gate II, Critical Path, Forever Growing Garden
• Strategic Simulations games: Secret of the Silver Blades for MS-DOS
• ATI games: Mortal Kombat III for Windows 95, Super Bubsy for Windows 95

References

1. Rahmat, Omid (2000-01-20). "DirectX - Better than NT?". Tom's Hardware Second Hand Smoke. Retrieved 2006-12-23.

External links

• "IMDB: Ken Nicholson?". Internet Movie Database. 2016-03-15. Retrieved 2016-03-15.

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