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Gunpei Yokoi

1941 - 1997

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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gunpei Yokoi has received more than 798,457 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Gunpei Yokoi is the 7th most popular game designer (down from 6th in 2019), the 496th most popular biography from Japan (up from 538th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Japanese Game Designer.

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  • 800k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.41

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.10

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.50

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among GAME DESIGNERS

Among game designers, Gunpei Yokoi ranks 7 out of 56. Before him are Shigeru Miyamoto, Markus Persson, Ralph H. Baer, Hideo Kojima, Gabe Newell, and Jeff Kinney. After him are Satoru Iwata, Masayuki Uemura, Alexey Pajitnov, Satoshi Tajiri, Sid Meier, and Lizzie Magie.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Gunpei Yokoi ranks 134. Before him are Stacy Keach, Raúl Ruiz, Andrei Mironov, Charles Whitman, Sérgio Mendes, and Jorge Solari. After him are Hisao Kami, Sigmar Polke, Philippe Honoré, Paul Bremer, Maurice White, and Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya. Among people deceased in 1997, Gunpei Yokoi ranks 79. Before him are Alparslan Türkeş, Ernst Wilimowski, Giuseppe De Santis, Manfred von Ardenne, Hugo Gunckel Lüer, and Samuel Fuller. After him are Hastings Banda, François Furet, Virgilio Barco Vargas, Andrew Cunanan, Walter Gotell, and Bo Widerberg.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Gunpei Yokoi ranks 496 out of 6,048. Before him are Emperor Takakura (1161), Emperor Hanazono (1297), Minamoto no Yoriie (1182), Yamamoto Gonnohyōe (1852), Seki Takakazu (1642), and Emperor Kazan (967). After him are Hisao Kami (1941), Hifuyo Uchida (null), Hibari Misora (1937), Tsutomu Hata (1935), Emperor Juntoku (1197), and Machiko Kyō (1924).

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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), Masayuki Uemura (1943), Satoshi Tajiri (1965), Toru Iwatani (1955), Shigesato Itoi (1948), Shinji Mikami (1965), Hironobu Sakaguchi (1962), Masahiro Sakurai (1970), and Hidetaka Miyazaki (1974).

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