Mike Perry (born 1969) was creative director at Maxis and Electronic Arts, where he worked on many of the Sim games.

His stepfather later took a job as medical professor at the University of South Alabama, which school Perry attended as well, studying music.

For the next two years he worked part-time at the videogame booth in a Toys R Us store, and played rhythm guitar for a local heavy metal band.

Over the next two years his duties expanded within the company, including work on such games as Bomberman 2 and Super Adventure Island.

In 1992, Perry was hired by Jeff Braun of Maxis to work as a project manager, doing what was called "Maintenance Producing," supporting updates on existing products such as SimEarth and SimCity.