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ABOUT ALEX RIGOPULOS & ERAN EGOZYAlex Rigopulos and Eran Egozy are co-founders of Harmonix Music Systems, the game development company responsible for the wildly popular Guitar Hero and Rock Band video games. Rigopulos and Egozy first met as graduate students in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's renowned Media Lab. Brought together by a shared love of computers and music, the two accomplished musicians (Rigopulos rocks out on the drums, while Egozy is a professional classical clarinetist) went on to found Harmonix in 1995, with the mission of bringing the joy of music-making to the masses-even those with no musical training. After designing several well-reviewed music-based games, the duo broke through to the big time with the 2005 release of Guitar Hero, followed in 2007 by the equally popular Rock Band. Rigopulos and Egozy's potent combination of musical training and advanced technical skill-combined with a healthy dose of innovation-has fueled explosive growth in the category of music games and earned the two a place on Time Magazine's 2008 list of the 100 most influential people in the world. (Not to mention brought joy to air guitarists, shower singers and living room rock stars the world over.) |
