Rawson Stovall
Rawson Law Stovall (born 1972) is an American video game designer and producer. He started out as a video game journalist, the first to be nationally syndicated in the United States. In 1982, ten-year-old Stovall's first column appeared in the Abilene Reporter-News, his local newspaper. He got the column in ten publications before Universal Press Syndicate started distributing it in April 1983; by 1984, the column, titled "The Vid Kid", appeared in over twenty-four newspapers. After being reported on by The New York Times, Stovall was featured on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and earned a regular spot on Discovery Channel's The New Tech Times. In 1985, he helped introduce the Nintendo Entertainment System at its North American launch. In 1990, Stovall retired from video game journalism to attend Southern Methodist University. He later worked as a game designer and producer for Sony, Activision, Electronic Arts, MGM Interactive, and most recently Concrete Software. At Electronic Arts, he produced video games in The Sims franchise. Biography Early life Rawson Law Stovall was born in 1972 to Ronald L. Stovall, a regional manager for the Texas State Health Department and former Boy Scouts executive; and Kay Law Stovall. He has a