GAME DESIGNER

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. As a hardware engineer, he led the development of various arcade system boards, including the Sega Space Harrier, Model 1, Model 2 and Model 3, and was involved in the technical development of the Dreamcast console and its corresponding NAOMI arcade hardware.In 2003, Suzuki became the sixth person to be inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences' Hall of Fame. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yu Suzuki has received more than 531,013 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Yu Suzuki is the 24th most popular game designer (up from 27th in 2019), the 1,262nd most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,236th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Japanese Game Designer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 530k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.79

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.51

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.60

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Yu Suzukis by language

Over the past year Yu Suzuki has had the most page views in the with 61,536 views, followed by Japanese (20,785), and Italian (5,757). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Italian (151.29%), Egyptian Arabic (121.65%), and Icelandic (77.07%)

Among GAME DESIGNERS

Among game designers, Yu Suzuki ranks 24 out of 77. Before him are Toru Iwatani, Masayuki Uemura, Hidetaka Miyazaki, Peter Molyneux, Reiner Knizia, and Dave Arneson. After him are Kazunori Yamauchi, Carol Shaw, Eiji Aonuma, Will Wright, Scott Cawthon, and Masahiro Sakurai.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1958, Yu Suzuki ranks 249. Before him are Sheree J. Wilson, Hiroshi Yoshida, Amanda Bearse, Mishaal bint Fahd Al Saud, Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, and Wendy Makkena. After him are Matt Frewer, Luz Casal, Bernard Fellay, Alexander Nevzorov, Zoran Vujović, and Grandmaster Flash.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yu Suzuki ranks 1,262 out of 6,245. Before him are LiSA (1987), Kazuyoshi Hoshino (1947), Makoto Hasebe (1984), Gackt (1973), Rinko Kikuchi (1981), and Hiroshi Fushida (1946). After him are Kihachi Okamoto (1924), Ichikawa Raizō VIII (1931), Kotono Mitsuishi (1967), Chikage Awashima (1924), Junichi Suwabe (1972), and Satoshi Furukawa (1964).

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Among GAME DESIGNERS In Japan

Among game designers born in Japan, Yu Suzuki ranks 12. Before him are Shinji Mikami (1965), Shigesato Itoi (1948), Hironobu Sakaguchi (1962), Toru Iwatani (1955), Masayuki Uemura (1943), and Hidetaka Miyazaki (1974). After him are Kazunori Yamauchi (1967), Eiji Aonuma (1963), Masahiro Sakurai (1970), Hideki Kamiya (1970), Yuji Naka (1965), and Tetsuya Nomura (1970).

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