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Yu Suzuki

1958 - Today

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Yu Suzuki (鈴木 裕, Suzuki Yū, born June 10, 1958) is a Japanese game designer, producer, programmer, and engineer, who headed Sega's AM2 team for 18 years. Considered one of the first auteurs of video games, he has been responsible for a number of Sega's arcade hits, including three-dimensional sprite-scaling games that used "taikan" motion simulator arcade cabinets, such as Hang-On, Space Harrier, Out Run and After Burner, and pioneering polygonal 3D games such as Virtua Racing and Virtua Fighter, which are some of the games besides others from rival companies during that era credited with popularizing 3D graphics in video games; as well as the critically acclaimed Shenmue series. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yu Suzuki has received more than 535,658 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Yu Suzuki is the 27th most popular game designer (down from 22nd in 2019), the 1,239th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,159th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Japanese Game Designer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 540k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.14

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.01

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.68

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among GAME DESIGNERS

Among game designers, Yu Suzuki ranks 27 out of 56. Before him are Peter Molyneux, Steve Jackson, Will Wright, John Carmack, Hidetaka Miyazaki, and John Romero. After him are Eiji Aonuma, Tetsuya Nomura, Dave Arneson, Yuji Horii, Yuji Naka, and Hideki Kamiya.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1958, Yu Suzuki ranks 256. Before him are Patricia Heaton, Choguel Kokalla Maïga, Susanna Thompson, Volodymyr Bezsonov, Charlene Tilton, and Thurston Moore. After him are Bob Bradley, Abdi Farah Shirdon, You Xie, Amy Pascal, Heinz Hermann, and John Mahama.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yu Suzuki ranks 1,239 out of 6,048. Before him are Hiroshi Suzuki (1933), Akihiko Hoshide (1968), Hiroyuki Sawano (1980), Kenyu Horiuchi (1957), Daisuke Ono (1978), and Romi Park (1972). After him are Takeshi Urata (1947), Sumi Shimamoto (1954), Sachiko Hidari (1930), Bunzō Hayata (1874), Yukito Kishiro (1967), and Wataru Takagi (1966).

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Among GAME DESIGNERS In Japan

Among game designers born in Japan, Yu Suzuki ranks 13. Before him are Toru Iwatani (1955), Shigesato Itoi (1948), Shinji Mikami (1965), Hironobu Sakaguchi (1962), Masahiro Sakurai (1970), and Hidetaka Miyazaki (1974). After him are Eiji Aonuma (1963), Tetsuya Nomura (1970), Yuji Horii (1954), Yuji Naka (1965), Hideki Kamiya (1970), and Kazunori Yamauchi (1967).

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