Meet the Team

Robin Lavallée

Chief Gaming Officer, Co-Founder

Favorite Retro Game: Final Fantasy IV

Favorite Modern Game: Fortnite - Because that's basically Unreal Tournament 2004 in a Battle Royale

Robin learned English through Dragon Warrior, meaning Shakespearean English - "Thou", "Thy", "Hast" - and had to subsequently unlearn this.

He also wrote a PlayStation 1 emulator back in 2003, for a college project. Little did he know...

Bill Litshauer

CEO

Favorite Retro Game: Doom

Favorite Modern Game: Diablo 4

After graduating, Bill's first job was as an extra in Toronto for the movie Resident Evil: Apocalypse. He was part of the Umbrella Corp. SWAT team and had the fortune of being fully geared up! 48 hours of work resulted in 1.5s of screen time...

Todd C.

CTO

Favorite Retro Game: Lufia 2

Favorite Modern Game: Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth

Todd once made the mistake of submitting an RPG + scripting language to a science fair.

Mouse

Head of Community

Favorite Retro Game: Legend of Legaia

Favorite Modern Game: Baldur's Gate 3

Mouse has 600+ games in her physical collection and yet still hasn't fully replaced the NES library she had that was given away and inevitably burned down in a house fire.

Twyla Hines

Executive Assistant

Favorite Retro Game: Super Mario Bros.

Favorite Modern Game: :x

When Twyla was 13, she broke her wrist roller skating TWO WEEKS before her piano recital. Needless to say, her piano teacher was NOT impressed and so, as "punishment", she had to learn a song to sing instead.

Jean-André Santoni

Technical Lead

Dave Fishel

Senior Software Development Engineer

Favorite Retro Game: Impossible to pick one. If you let me pick two, I'd say Super Mario 64 and Katamari Damacy

Favorite Modern Game: I like to get sweaty with competitive Splatoon 3

Dave's proudest professional achievement is that a mobile game he was the lead engineer on was parodied by South Park.

Andre Leiradella

Software Engineer

Favorite Retro Game: Doom Classic

Favorite Modern Game: Heavenly Sword (yes, it's modern)

Andre integrated RetroArch with RetroAchievements.org because he wanted to win achievements playing retro games. He never won, not even a single achievement...

Gregory Hainaut

Software Development Engineer

Maxime Van Hoof

Technical QA

Favorite Retro Game: Azure Dreams

Favorite Modern Game: MGS V

Maxime drinks half his weight in coke on a weekly basis.

Chris McAuley

QA Specialist

Favorite Retro Game: Defenders of the Oasis (Game Gear)

Favorite Modern Game: Still Wakes The Deep

In addition for writing for the Stokerverse, Chris is also a pixel artist for "new" retro games on the Megadrive and Amiga!

Lucas Leiradella

QA Tester

Favorite Retro Game: Deus Ex Classic

Favorite Modern Game: Receiver 2

"A bomb's a bad choice for close-range combat"

-JC Denton

Jean-Fred Gauvin

Producer & QA Lead

Favorite Retro Game: Road Rash 64

Favorite Modern Game: Cyberpunk 2077

Jean-Fred's biggest passion after retro games - he has a Neo Geo tattoo! - is music. He loves listening to all types, and going to concerts. He also creates music, and is the vocalist in a few projects & bands, mostly metal.

Pierre-Luc Gagnon

Emulation Engineer

Favorite Retro Game: The Guardian Legend

Favorite Modern Game: Portal 2

Pierre-Luc has worked in wildly disconnected areas: The army, particle physics research, race car tuning, and now in retro-gaming. It's clear he likes to try new things! These days, in his free time, he mainly rides his motorcycle while listening to Spanish podcasts.

Cedric Lavallée

Junior QA

Favorite Retro Game: Doom (1993)

Favorite Modern Game: Fortnite

Cedric doesn't like C++ and prefers C.