GAME DESIGNER

Gunpei Yokoi

1941 - 1997

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Gunpei Yokoi (横井 軍平, Yokoi Gunpei, 10 September 1941 – 4 October 1997), sometimes transliterated as Gumpei Yokoi, was a Japanese toy maker and video game designer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gunpei Yokoi has received more than 998,217 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Gunpei Yokoi is the 7th most popular game designer, the 424th most popular biography from Japan (up from 494th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Japanese Game Designer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 64.05

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.66

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.54

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among GAME DESIGNERS

Among game designers, Gunpei Yokoi ranks 7 out of 77. Before him are Shigeru Miyamoto, Hideo Kojima, Alexey Pajitnov, Markus Persson, Ralph H. Baer, and Jeff Kinney. After him are Gabe Newell, Satoru Iwata, Satoshi Tajiri, Lizzie Magie, Klaus Teuber, and Sid Meier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Gunpei Yokoi ranks 126. Before him are Peter Coyote, Adrian Lyne, Barbet Schroeder, Barbara Brylska, Stacy Keach, and Ahmed Shafik. After him are Florinda Bolkan, Raúl Ruiz, Martha Stewart, Otto Sander, Akiko Wakabayashi, and David Crosby. Among people deceased in 1997, Gunpei Yokoi ranks 77. Before him are André Franquin, Fela Kuti, Uzi Narkiss, Ernst Wilimowski, Hugo Gunckel Lüer, and Alparslan Türkeş. After him are Amado Carrillo Fuentes, Héctor Yazalde, Teiichi Matsumaru, Manfred von Ardenne, Stig Anderson, and Samuel Fuller.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Gunpei Yokoi ranks 424 out of 6,245. Before him are Yoshijirō Umezu (1882), Emperor Go-Reizei (1025), Ii Naomasa (1561), Hirohiko Araki (1960), Emperor Daigo (885), and Mōri Terumoto (1533). After him are Azai Nagamasa (1545), Emperor Jomei (593), Tokugawa Iesada (1824), Junji Ito (1963), Mamoru Oshii (1951), and Noritaka Hidaka (1947).

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Among GAME DESIGNERS In Japan

Among game designers born in Japan, Gunpei Yokoi ranks 3. Before him are Shigeru Miyamoto (1952), and Hideo Kojima (1963). After him are Satoru Iwata (1959), Satoshi Tajiri (1965), Shinji Mikami (1965), Shigesato Itoi (1948), Hironobu Sakaguchi (1962), Toru Iwatani (1955), Masayuki Uemura (1943), Hidetaka Miyazaki (1974), and Yu Suzuki (1958).

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