First female videogame developer

First female videogame developer
Who
Carol Shaw
Where
United States
When
1978
The first female games programmer and designer was Carol Shaw (USA). She began her career at Atari, where she created 3-D Tic-Tac-Toe (Atari, 1978). Carol Shaw later joined Activision, where she designed popular scrolling shooter River Raid (Activision, 1982) and puzzle game Happy Trails (Activision, 1983).