Game culture: He helped Sony make Crash Bandicoot and Sega make the Dreamcast – Bernie Stolar is dead

On By Garmin Philip
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The former industry giant Bernie Stolar is dead. The former vice president at Sony and later Sega made a major contribution to the success of the first PlayStation and advanced the Dreamcast.

Stolar became one report According to VentureBeat, he was 75 years old and passed away on June 25, 2022. The cause of death is unknown. In his long career, the American advanced many projects that influenced generations of players and some of which are still relevant.

Bernie Stolar: Driving force behind PSX and founder of 2K

During his career, Stolar has served as a founding member and executive vice president of Sony Computer Entertainment America. In this role, he helped launch the very first PlayStation with its range of games. He later brought well-known brands such as Crash Bandicoot, Ridge Racer, Spyro The Dragon, Battle Arena Toshinden and the Oddworld Inhabitants studio on board.

He then joined Sega, where he immediately championed the end of Saturn and the development of new technology that would later become the Dreamcast. During this time he was also largely responsible for the purchase of Visual Concepts and the subsequent founding of 2K Sports.

In 1999, Stolar joined toy company Mattel, where he launched a successful line of video games based on Barbie dolls. His other positions included Adscape Media, Google, GetFugu, ZOOM and the Jordan Freeman Group.



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