In Memoriam 1997
On this page we pay tribute to all the people who worked or participated in the world of video games and passed away in 1997.
You will view people by the year they died, remembering a little more about their work and their importance in the history of games.
Barry Marx
Barry Marx was a designer and writer, worked at developers Imagineering and Absolute Entertainment and was a writer and game designer for several Simpsons games such as The Simpsons: Bart vs the Space Mutants, Bart vs. the World, Bartman Meets Radioactive Man and Bart Simpson Escape from Camp Deadly.
Unfortunately he died in 1997 of a heart attack at the age of 41.
Juzo Itami
Juzo Itame was an actor, screenwriter and film director, having directed 11 films in his career, including one short film and ten feature films, all of them with a script written by him.