GAME DESIGNER

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 110,912 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Masayuki Uemura is the 19th most popular game designer (down from 9th in 2019), the 1,164th most popular biography from Japan (down from 634th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Japanese Game Designer.

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  • 110k

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  • 49.24

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.21

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.42

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among GAME DESIGNERS

Among game designers, Masayuki Uemura ranks 19 out of 77. Before him are Sid Meier, Shinji Mikami, Shigesato Itoi, Gary Gygax, Hironobu Sakaguchi, and Toru Iwatani. After him are Hidetaka Miyazaki, Peter Molyneux, Reiner Knizia, Dave Arneson, Yu Suzuki, and Kazunori Yamauchi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Masayuki Uemura ranks 407. Before him are James L. Elliot, Butler Lampson, Perry Christie, Sharon Gless, Cilla Black, and Harry Shearer. After him are Lyudmila Bragina, Janet Akyüz Mattei, Ivan Davidov, Niles Eldredge, Ted Neeley, and Yoram Globus. Among people deceased in 2021, Masayuki Uemura ranks 327. Before him are Joseph Benz, Ivan Toplak, Art Metrano, Frederic Rzewski, Anatoliy Zlenko, and Susana Higuchi. After him are Sylvano Bussotti, Chuck Close, Una Stubbs, Anatoly Chukanov, Donald Kagan, and Jeannette Altwegg.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Masayuki Uemura ranks 1,164 out of 6,245. Before him are Ayako Wakao (1933), Masamune Shirow (1961), Gozo Shioda (1915), Tsukasa Hojo (1959), Kenjiro Tsuda (1971), and Hirotugu Akaike (1927). After him are Mutsuhiro Watanabe (1918), Paul Yoshigoro Taguchi (1902), Ikuo Matsumoto (1941), Yumiko Igarashi (1950), Yoshiki Tanaka (1952), and Namie Amuro (1977).

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Among GAME DESIGNERS In Japan

Among game designers born in Japan, Masayuki Uemura ranks 10. Before him are Satoru Iwata (1959), Satoshi Tajiri (1965), Shinji Mikami (1965), Shigesato Itoi (1948), Hironobu Sakaguchi (1962), and Toru Iwatani (1955). After him are Hidetaka Miyazaki (1974), Yu Suzuki (1958), Kazunori Yamauchi (1967), Eiji Aonuma (1963), Masahiro Sakurai (1970), and Hideki Kamiya (1970).

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