GAME DESIGNER

Toru Iwatani

1955 - Today

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Tōru Iwatani (岩谷 徹, Iwatani Tōru, born January 25, 1955) is a Japanese video game designer who spent much of his career working for Namco. He is best known as the creator of the arcade game Pac-Man (1980). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Toru Iwatani has received more than 1,080,524 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Toru Iwatani is the 18th most popular game designer (down from 14th in 2019), the 1,143rd most popular biography from Japan (down from 932nd in 2019) and the 9th most popular Japanese Game Designer.

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  • 49.51

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.53

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.83

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among GAME DESIGNERS

Among game designers, Toru Iwatani ranks 18 out of 77. Before him are Klaus Teuber, Sid Meier, Shinji Mikami, Shigesato Itoi, Gary Gygax, and Hironobu Sakaguchi. After him are Masayuki Uemura, Hidetaka Miyazaki, Peter Molyneux, Reiner Knizia, Dave Arneson, and Yu Suzuki.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Toru Iwatani ranks 249. Before him are Rolf Løvland, Elisa Ferreira, Teo Fabi, Ole Beich, Wang Yang, and Sandra Bernhard. After him are Catherine Hardwicke, Colm Tóibín, Lucía Méndez, Badri Patarkatsishvili, Buck Adams, and Kevin Conroy.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Toru Iwatani ranks 1,143 out of 6,245. Before him are Tadashi Imai (1912), Gotō Shōjirō (1838), Akira Emoto (1948), Toshiko Yuasa (1909), Yumi Matsutoya (1954), and Isao Kimura (1923). After him are Kanno Sugako (1881), Chiaki Mukai (1952), Shusaku Hirasawa (1949), Kappei Yamaguchi (1965), Mitsuo Kato (1953), and Kuniya Daini (1944).

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Among GAME DESIGNERS In Japan

Among game designers born in Japan, Toru Iwatani ranks 9. Before him are Gunpei Yokoi (1941), Satoru Iwata (1959), Satoshi Tajiri (1965), Shinji Mikami (1965), Shigesato Itoi (1948), and Hironobu Sakaguchi (1962). After him are Masayuki Uemura (1943), Hidetaka Miyazaki (1974), Yu Suzuki (1958), Kazunori Yamauchi (1967), Eiji Aonuma (1963), and Masahiro Sakurai (1970).

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