Don Traeger
Moby ID: 182
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Best known for having started the EA Sports brand for Electronic Arts, Traeger started his career at Atari Games in the early 80's and came to Electronic Arts in 1984. He remained at EA for over 10 years, distinguishing himself by producing EA's first internally-developed hit, Skate or Die, and going on to serve as Producer and Executive Producer for a long line of top-selling action and sports products.
While at EA, he negotiated and signed early sports licensing deals with Michael Jordan and the NBA and PGA Tour and conceptualized and developed the brand look and feel for EA Sports.
Traeger left EA in 1995 to set up a new technology start-up for entertainment giant BMG. He launched his own independent game development studio, DT Productions, in the fall of 1997, creating console hits like Jet Moto 3 for Sony and MX 2002 featuring Ricky Carmichael for THQ. DT Productions became Pacific Coast Power and Light, which was purchased and became a wholly-owned subsidiary of THQ, Inc in 1999.
In September 2003, Traeger became a member of the Strategic Advisory Board at Linden Lab.
Credited on 49 games
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| Destroy All Humans! Big Willy Unleashed (2008, Wii) | General Manager |
| Disney•Pixar Ratatouille (2007, PSP) | General Manager |
| Disney•Pixar Cars (2006, PSP) | Executive Producer |
| Power Rangers: Dino Thunder (2004, GameCube) | Executive Producer |
| WWE Crush Hour (2003, PlayStation 2) | Executive in Charge of Production |
| MX Superfly Featuring Ricky Carmichael (2002, PlayStation 2) | President |
| MX 2002 featuring Ricky Carmichael (2001, PlayStation 2) | President |
| Nuclear Strike (1999, Nintendo 64) | President |
| Jet Moto 3 (1999, PlayStation) | Produced by |
| Monkey Hero (1999, PlayStation) | Special Thanks to |
| Alexi Lalas International Soccer (1998, Windows) | Executive Producers |
| Moto Racer (1997, PlayStation) | Executive Producers |
| Courier Crisis (1997, SEGA Saturn) | Executive Producers |
| Spider: The Video Game (1996, PlayStation) | Executive Producers |
| Shaq Fu (1995, Game Gear) | EA Management Team |
| Fade to Black (1995, DOS) | Thanks to |
| Michael Jordan: Chaos in the Windy City (1994, SNES) | Executive Producer |
| NBA Showdown (1993, SNES) | Executive Producer |
| Bulls vs. Blazers and the NBA Playoffs (1993, Genesis) | Produced by |
| Haunting Starring Polterguy (1993, Genesis) | Producer |
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Frequent Collaborators
People- 20 games with Nancy L. Fong
- 17 games with Happy Keller
- 16 games with Jim Rushing
- 13 games with Rob Hubbard
- 12 games with Michael Kosaka
- 12 games with Cynthia Hamilton
- 12 games with Jon Horsley
- 10 games with Sarah Smith
- 9 games with Ken Proudfoot
- 8 games with Paul Vernon
Companies
- 36 games with Electronic Arts, Inc.
- 12 games with Electronic Arts Ltd.
- 9 games with Locomotive Games, Inc.
- 8 games with THQ Inc.
- 8 games with Electronic Arts Victor, Inc.
- 7 games with EA Sports
- 4 games with NBA Properties, Inc.
- 4 games with E.J. Sarraille Design Group
- 4 games with Brasoft Produtos de...
- 3 games with Delphine Software International
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