Everyone has to start out at the bottom of the food chain at work. That's why they call it#160; the career ladder. You grab onto the bottom rung, and then spend years working your way up. And superstar game developers are no exception.

They might be household names now, and sell games in Hollywood-embarrassing numbers, but every big designer had to start off somewhere a lot less glamourous. So we've had a poke around and dug out the earliest games by the modern industry's brightest and best. What did David Jaffe do before God of War? You might be very surprised.