Rebecca Heineman: Why she kicks ass
- She is an American video game programmer, and veteran of the computer game industry, who was a founding member of Interplay Productions, Logicware, and Contraband Entertainment.
- She won the National Space Invaders Championship, sponsored by Atari, in November, 1980, making her the first person to ever win a national video game contest.
- Heineman programmed the cult classic graphic adventure games Tass Times in Tonetown and The Bard’s Tale III: Thief of Fate, the Macintosh, Super Nintendo and Apple IIGS ports of Another World.
- In 2001, she started writing novels based on Sailor Moon, Ranma 1/2, The Terminator and Independence Day and in 2008, she launched a webcomic called Sailor Ranko.
- To date, she’s contributed code to over 200 video game titles for every video game platform.