Stephen Clarke-Willson is an American

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executive. He served as the vice president of

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in the early 1990s.

Summary

From 1990 to 1994, he was the vice president of

. He was instrumental in Virgin's acquisition of

Westwood Studios Westwood Studios, Inc. was an American video game developer based in Las Vegas, Nevada. It was founded by Brett Sperry and Louis Castle in 1985 as Brelous Software, but got changed after 2 months into Westwood Associates and was renamed to Westw ...

, 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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'', '' Global Gladiators'', ''

Cool Spot ''Cool Spot'' is a 1993 platform game developed by Virgin Games for the Mega Drive/Genesis, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Master System, Game Gear, Game Boy, Amiga, and MS-DOS. The title character is Spot, a mascot for the soft drink br ...

'', and '' Disney’s Jungle Book''; also ''

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'' 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"."Applying Game Design to Virtual Environments"
reprinted at ''

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'' Clarke-Willson now works at

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as the Studio Technical Director for ''

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''.

References

External links

Interview from Sega-16.com
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