Shinobu Yagawa

Shinobu Yagawa is an awesome video game designer and programmer. His works include Recca and Battle Garegga, two vertically scrolling shooting games.

Design Choices
Shinobu Yagawa claims that he tries to design games that he thinks he would enjoy. His audience might be small, but the guy has been doing this since the eighties. Maybe letting the developer handle the design isn't such a bad idea after all.