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Masayuki Uemura

1943 - 2021

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Masayuki Uemura (上村雅之, Uemura Masayuki, 20 June 1943 – 6 December 2021) was a Japanese engineer, video game producer, and professor. He was known for his work as an employee of Nintendo from 1971 to 2004, most notably for serving as a key factor in the development of the Nintendo Entertainment System. A former employee of Sharp Corporation, Uemura joined Nintendo in 1971 working with Gunpei Yokoi and Genyo Takeda on solar cell technology for the Laser Clay Shooting System arcade game. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Masayuki Uemura has received more than 102,526 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Masayuki Uemura is the 9th most popular game designer, the 636th most popular biography from Japan and the 5th most popular Japanese Game Designer.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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Among GAME DESIGNERS

Among game designers, Masayuki Uemura ranks 9 out of 56. Before him are Ralph H. Baer, Hideo Kojima, Gabe Newell, Jeff Kinney, Gunpei Yokoi, and Satoru Iwata. After him are Alexey Pajitnov, Satoshi Tajiri, Sid Meier, Lizzie Magie, Toru Iwatani, and Shigesato Itoi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Masayuki Uemura ranks 182. Before him are Dominik Duka, Nicholas Negroponte, Nolan Bushnell, Wallace Shawn, Dragan Nikolić, and José Ángel Iribar. After him are Raphael, Mike Leigh, Lauren Hutton, Lucio Battisti, Mark Granovetter, and Angelo Bagnasco. Among people deceased in 2021, Masayuki Uemura ranks 201. Before him are Arlene Dahl, Jorge Liberato Urosa Savino, Cicely Tyson, Edward Cassidy, Yegor Ligachyov, and Jan Jindra. After him are Darlene Hard, Jane Powell, Sabine Weiss, George Segal, Sam Jones, and Albert Vanhoye.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Masayuki Uemura ranks 636 out of 6,048. Before him are Yoshida Shōin (1830), Hakaru Hashimoto (1881), Teiichi Matsumaru (1909), Hantaro Nagaoka (1865), Isamu Chō (1895), and Yoshio Furukawa (1934). After him are Hitoshi Ashida (1887), Saigyō (1118), Sen Katayama (1859), Victoria Principal (1950), Prince Kan'in Kotohito (1865), and Takao Nishiyama (1942).

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Among GAME DESIGNERS In Japan

Among game designers born in Japan, Masayuki Uemura ranks 5. Before him are Shigeru Miyamoto (1952), Hideo Kojima (1963), Gunpei Yokoi (1941), and Satoru Iwata (1959). After him are 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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