GAME DESIGNER

Shigesato Itoi

1948 - Today

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Shigesato Itoi (糸井 重里, Itoi Shigesato, born November 10, 1948) is a Japanese copywriter, essayist, lyricist, game designer, and actor. Itoi is the editor-in-chief of his website and company Hobo Nikkan Itoi Shinbun ("Almost Daily Itoi Newspaper"). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shigesato Itoi has received more than 622,007 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Shigesato Itoi is the 15th most popular game designer, the 1,007th most popular biography from Japan (down from 948th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Japanese Game Designer.

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  • 620k

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  • 57.92

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.34

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.05

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among GAME DESIGNERS

Among game designers, Shigesato Itoi ranks 15 out of 77. Before him are Satoru Iwata, Satoshi Tajiri, Lizzie Magie, Klaus Teuber, Sid Meier, and Shinji Mikami. After him are Gary Gygax, Hironobu Sakaguchi, Toru Iwatani, Masayuki Uemura, Hidetaka Miyazaki, and Peter Molyneux.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Shigesato Itoi ranks 316. Before him are Rick James, Koloman Gögh, Jackson Browne, Robert Hübner, Yossi Beilin, and Levy Mwanawasa. After him are Josef Hickersberger, Joe Dallesandro, Pedro Artola, Joel Santana, Otto Waalkes, and David H. Levy.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Shigesato Itoi ranks 1,007 out of 6,245. Before him are Kiyoshi Atsumi (1928), Kijirō Nambu (1869), Ryuichi Sugiyama (1941), Shuji Tsurumi (1938), Chica Umino (null), and Hiroji Imamura (1949). After him are Akira Kamiya (1946), Michitsuna's mother (935), Yasuhiro Yamashita (1957), Yukio Kasaya (1943), Kunio Yanagita (1875), and Nobuo Kawakami (1947).

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Among GAME DESIGNERS In Japan

Among game designers born in Japan, Shigesato Itoi ranks 7. Before him are Shigeru Miyamoto (1952), Hideo Kojima (1963), Gunpei Yokoi (1941), Satoru Iwata (1959), Satoshi Tajiri (1965), and Shinji Mikami (1965). After him are Hironobu Sakaguchi (1962), Toru Iwatani (1955), Masayuki Uemura (1943), Hidetaka Miyazaki (1974), Yu Suzuki (1958), and Kazunori Yamauchi (1967).

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