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Naoto Ohshima

1964 - Today

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Naoto Ohshima (大島 直人, Ōshima Naoto) (born February 26, 1964) is a Japanese artist and video game designer, best known for designing Sonic the Hedgehog and Dr. Eggman characters from Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog franchise. Although Yuji Naka created the original tech demo around which Sonic's gameplay was based, the character in his prototype was a ball that lacked any specific features. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Naoto Ohshima has received more than 447,690 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Naoto Ohshima is the 40th most popular game designer (up from 44th in 2019), the 1,590th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,548th in 2019) and the 20th most popular Japanese Game Designer.

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  • 450k

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  • 39.96

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.55

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.72

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among GAME DESIGNERS

Among game designers, Naoto Ohshima ranks 40 out of 56. Before him are Ron Gilbert, Roberta Williams, Scott Cawthon, Ed Boon, Kazunori Yamauchi, and Al Lowe. After him are Chris Taylor, Carol Shaw, David Cage, Jens Bergensten, Yoshinori Kitase, and Tim Schafer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1964, Naoto Ohshima ranks 462. Before him are María Fernanda Espinosa, Magomedsalam Magomedov, Éric Elmosnino, Brad Anderson, Koshi Inaba, and Kevin Michael Richardson. After him are Silvia Neid, Yoshua Bengio, Cristina Cifuentes, Raimo Helminen, John Pyper-Ferguson, and Robert Duncan McNeill.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Naoto Ohshima ranks 1,590 out of 6,048. Before him are Daisuke Matsui (1981), Satomi Ishihara (1986), Yui Aragaki (1988), Yua Mikami (1993), Koshi Inaba (1964), and Toshihiko Koga (1967). After him are Katsutoshi Naito (1895), Masami Kuwashima (1950), Takuya Takagi (1967), Yoshihisa Yoshikawa (1936), Daisuke Matsuzaka (1980), and Yuji Takada (1954).

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Among GAME DESIGNERS In Japan

Among game designers born in Japan, Naoto Ohshima ranks 20. Before him are Eiji Aonuma (1963), Tetsuya Nomura (1970), Yuji Horii (1954), Yuji Naka (1965), Hideki Kamiya (1970), and Kazunori Yamauchi (1967). After him are Yoshinori Kitase (1966) and Koji Igarashi (1968).

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