They were certainly worthy... but they were also the geese laying the golden eggs. The management didn't want their best designers and programmers poached by t

They were certainly worthy... but they were also the geese laying the golden eggs. The management didn't want their best designers and programmers poached by the competition so names were not made public. There were groups that figured this out, though, and quit to form their own design companies. Most famously the Activision team and the Vid Kidz.