Laura Nikolich (née Lyon) was an American video game designer and software developer.
She worked for Parker Brothers in the early 1980s where she was the sole developer for the 1982 Atari 2600 game Spider-Man and programmed the ColecoVision version of Frogger II: ThreeeDeep!.
Laura Nikolich graduated in 1976 with a bachelor's degree in engineering technology from University of South Florida.
Real-time programming in assembly language gave her skills useful for the emerging video game industry.
Working with the limitations of the system, she designed it as a vertically scrolling game,[2] which was challenging to create.