Theresa Duncan

Quick Facts

Full Name	Theresa Duncan
Occupation	Video Game Designer
Date Of Birth	Oct 26, 1966(1966-10-26)
Age	58
Date Of Death	July 10, 2007, East Village, New York, NY
Birthplace	Lapeer
Country	United States
Birth City	Michigan
Horoscope	Scorpio

Theresa Duncan Biography

Theresa Duncan is one of the most popular and richest Video Game Designer who was born on October 26, 1966 in Lapeer, Michigan, United States.

Collaborating with her boyfriend Jeremy Blake, Duncan created three influential CD-ROM computer games for young girls in the second half of the 1990s: Chop Suey, Smarty, and Zero Zero. These games were designed as alternatives to her traditionally male-oriented field where the few “girls’ games” created embodied a “model of boy-catching self-fulfillment”. Duncan spoke out against market-tested girls’ games characterized by an “earnest blandness” and a “perfunctory feminism [like] slapping the pink bow on Pacman”.

Duncan’s CD-ROMs are widely celebrated. Chop Suey has the broadest reputation. Upon its release, Entertainment Weekly named it 1995’s “CD-ROM of the Year” and was generally praised by reviewers. In recent years, it has been celebrated as a significant work of the CD-ROM boom. Kara Swisher wrote in 2007, “While the CD-ROM business proved to be a bridge technology and Chop Suey did not endure the onslaught of the Web, after seeing it, I have never forgotten it”. In 2012 in Motherboard, video games critic Jenn Frank called Chop Suey “timeless”, and celebrated its bravery in representing “the criminally underrepresented: that is, the wild imagination of some girl aged 7 to 12”.

Theresa Duncan Net Worth

Theresa Duncan is one of the richest Video Game Designer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Theresa Duncan 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Theresa Duncan (October 26, 1966 – July 10, 2007) was an American video game designer, blogger, filmmaker and critic. By the late 1990s, she was recognized as one of the most critically acclaimed game designers for young girls.

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Who is Theresa Duncan Dating?

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The circumstances of Duncan’s death led to much media attention, including major articles in Vanity Fair and New York magazine. On November 30, 2008, the New York Post’s Page Six reported that Bret Easton Ellis was writing a screenplay about Duncan and Blake based on Nancy Jo Sales’ Vanity Fair article about the couple’s deaths called “The Golden Suicides”. Director Gus Van Sant had signed on as a consultant for the movie which did not eventually get produced.

Facts & Trivia

Thomas Ranked on the list of most popular Video Game Designer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Theresa Duncan celebrates birthday on October 26 of every year.

Because her games were designed on CD-ROMs to be played on operating systems that are “no longer possible to install on modern computers”, the games were effectively inaccessible to most people. In 2015, Rhizome, a nonprofit that focuses on new media art, restored Duncan’s games by making the “original, unaltered” games playable in a web browser with fundraising assistance via Kickstarter.