Looking back at when I was a kid, these games and products felt like something that simply always existed as though they were a force of nature, something created by a huge faceless team that knew what they were doing.

Being in the industry myself now, what amazes me most is almost every one of these great forces of nature was actually the result of one leader burning themselves right to the ground in order to get it done. In some cases, it's a small handful of people, but even then there's usually one that takes the whole thing on their shoulders even above the rest.

It helps further the old saying "if you want something done right, you have to do it yourself."