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Toru Iwatani

1955 - Today

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Toru 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 1,038,606 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Toru Iwatani is the 14th most popular game designer, the 935th most popular biography from Japan (up from 943rd in 2019) and the 7th most popular Japanese Game Designer.

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  • 21

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  • 5.66

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  • 2.23

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among GAME DESIGNERS

Among game designers, Toru Iwatani ranks 14 out of 56Before him are Satoru Iwata, Masayuki Uemura, Alexey Pajitnov, Satoshi Tajiri, Sid Meier, and Lizzie Magie. After him are Shigesato Itoi, Shinji Mikami, Hironobu Sakaguchi, Klaus Teuber, Gary Gygax, and Masahiro Sakurai.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Toru Iwatani ranks 177Before him are Tommy Emmanuel, Wang Huning, Mike Porcaro, Laurie Metcalf, Branscombe Richmond, and Anupam Kher. After him are Kate Mulgrew, Melinda Culea, Anneli Jäätteenmäki, Herbert Prohaska, Dominique Rocheteau, and Philippe Streiff.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Toru Iwatani ranks 935 out of 6,048Before him are Kuroda Seiki (1866), Yasuhiko Okudera (1952), Matsudaira Sadanobu (1759), Kyōko Kagawa (1931), Hiroshi Katayama (1940), and Mitsuo Kamata (1937). After him are Kazuki Takahashi (1961), Abe Masahiro (1819), Nobuko Yoshiya (1896), Noriaki Kasai (1972), Uesugi Harunori (1751), and Unkei (1151).

Among GAME DESIGNERS In Japan

Among game designers born in Japan, Toru Iwatani ranks 7Before him are Shigeru Miyamoto (1952), Hideo Kojima (1963), Gunpei Yokoi (1941), Satoru Iwata (1959), Masayuki Uemura (1943), and Satoshi Tajiri (1965). After him are Shigesato Itoi (1948), Shinji Mikami (1965), Hironobu Sakaguchi (1962), Masahiro Sakurai (1970), Hidetaka Miyazaki (1974), and Yu Suzuki (1958).