Name: Howard Lincoln
Birth: February 14, 1940

Occupation/Title: Lawyer, Businessman, Former Chairman of Nintendo America

Early Life/Family:
He was born in 1940 in Oakland, California. Lincoln was an active Boy Scout. As a twelve-year old boy, he posed for the famous Norman Rockwell painting The Scoutmaster, which was published in a calendar in 1956. In the painting, young Lincoln is on the immediate right of the campfire. Lincoln eventually attained the rank of Eagle Scout and received a Distinguished Eagle Scout Award.

Education/Training:
Got his BA in political science in 1962 at Berkeley. Got Law Degree from Berkeley Law in 1965.

Career Outline:
From 1966 to 1970, he served as a Naval lieutenant within the judge Advocate Generals' Corps. He then worked in private practice as an attorney in Seattle, Washington. There he did legal work in 1981 for Nintendo, culminating in the legal case Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Nintendo Co., Ltd., in which Universal City Studios had sued Nintendo claiming that the video game Donkey Kong infringed upon Universal City Studio's rights to King Kong. Lincoln hired John Kirby to represent Nintendo in the courtroom. Nintendo won the case, as well as successive court appeals. After that Lincoln joined Nintendo in 1983 as its senior Vice President and General Counsel. In 1994, he was appointed its chairman of Nintendo America.

Impact on Gaming:
Howard Lincoln later also be known for his defense of the video game industry during the joint hearings in the early 1990s on video game violence.

Personality:
His favorite video games are in the puzzle genre and his favorite game to play is Tetris. His thinks a lot and tends to like challenges.

Miscellaneous:
He is an active philanthropist. He has served as campaign chair for United Way of King County and the Chief Seattle Council of the Boy Scouts of America. He is also a trustee of Western Washington University.

Gameography:N/A Contributor to this listing: Brett Lo