Dave Ellis

Quick Facts

Full Name	Dave Ellis
Occupation	Long-Distance Runner
Date Of Birth	Apr 25, 1937(1937-04-25)
Age	87
Country	Canada
Birth City	Toronto
Horoscope	Aries

Dave Ellis Biography

Dave Ellis is one of the most popular and richest Long-Distance Runner who was born on April 25, 1937 in Toronto, Canada. Dave Ellis (born 1965) is a journalist, author of video game scripts, writer , and designer of video games. He is also a collector of classic arcade games as well as a regular columnist in Gameroom Magazine.

Ellis continued to work for MicroProse over seven and a half years, and he was able to survive two buy-outs (from Spectrum HoloByte and then Hasbro Interactive in 1999). In those years, he worked in various roles for various games. At the time, Ellis moved to the then MicroProse headquarters located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina to be the designer for the X-COM game Genesis. Ellis and other members of the studio were fired that same year, when Hasbro decided that it didn’t intend to become a developer of video games.

In addition to designing games at Vicious Cycle, Ellis has written the stories and voice-over scripts for most of their games since 2005. Two of these games won game writing awards. Dead Head Fred won the first Writers Guild of America award for Outstanding Video Game Writing in 2008, and Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard won the 2009 Spike TV Video Game Award for Best Comedy Game. Many of the titles that Ellis has written for are licensed properties. He has written stories and scripts for games based on licenses from Cartoon Network (Adventure Time: Finn & Jake Investigations, Ben 10 Alien Force, and Ben 10 Omniverse), DreamWorks (Flushed Away, Madagascar 3 and Turbo), Universal (Despicable Me), Namco (Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures 1 and 2), and Warner Bros. (Yogi Bear). In 1998, Ellis wrote a story and script based on the Star Trek: The Next Generation franchise for the first-person shooter, Star Trek: Klingon Honor Guard.

In the years since 1995 Ellis wrote numerous guidebooks on computer gaming strategy, for various publishers. As a devoted classic arcade game enthusiast, Ellis is also the creator of The Official Price Guide to Classic Video Games The Official Price Guide to Classic Video Games is an authoritative guide that covers all the aspects of collecting arcade classics handheld electronic games, as well as old-fashioned gaming consoles.

Dave Ellis Net Worth

Dave Ellis is one of the richest Long-Distance Runner from Canada. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Dave Ellis 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Ellis has an BSc in Mass Communication from Towson University in Mass Communication (film and television production). Ellis is wed with Meghan Harkins since the 20th of June in 1992. The couple is currently Meghan and Ellis reside at North Carolina with a number of dogs as well as one cat.

Ellis began his career in the world of video games through MicroProse in the month of March located in Hunt Valley, Maryland. He began in customer service , and then was transferred to QA and then moved up in the game designing department. It was here that Ellis was first introduced to X-COM, a video game franchise that he would be associated in some way or another throughout his entire career. The year 1998 saw Ellis created a brand new version of the X-COM series which was a space-shooter called X-COM: Interceptor.

Ellis then went to work for a new developer formed by former members of the Chapel Hill studio, Vicious Cycle Software. After less than a year, he left to work as a game designer for Random Games in Morrisville, North Carolina and remained there until November 2001, since which time the company has gone out of business. In 2005, Ellis rejoined Vicious Cycle as a game designer where he worked as a designer or writer (often both) on 19 titles for the PC and 11 different consoles and handhelds. Ellis remained with the company until November 2015, when most of the team was laid off. Vicious Cycle closed its doors forever in January 2016.

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Facts & Trivia

Dave Ranked on the list of most popular Long-Distance Runner. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Canada. Dave Ellis celebrates birthday on April 25 of every year.