GAME DESIGNER

Yuji Naka

1965 - Today

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Yuji Naka (中 裕司, Naka Yūji, born September 17, 1965), credited in some games as YU2, is a Japanese former video game programmer, designer and producer. He is the co-creator of the Sonic the Hedgehog series and was the president of Sonic Team at Sega until his departure in 2006. Naka joined Sega in 1984 and worked on games including Girl's Garden (1985) and Phantasy Star II (1989). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yuji Naka has received more than 1,113,836 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Yuji Naka is the 37th most popular game designer (down from 32nd in 2019), the 1,522nd most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,457th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Japanese Game Designer.

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  • 44.42

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.48

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.32

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among GAME DESIGNERS

Among game designers, Yuji Naka ranks 37 out of 77. Before him are John Carmack, Hideki Kamiya, John Romero, Steve Jackson, Ed Boon, and Ron Gilbert. After him are David Cage, Tetsuya Nomura, Roberta Williams, Yuji Horii, Todd Howard, and Jordan Mechner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1965, Yuji Naka ranks 345. Before him are Tshering Tobgay, Marc Degryse, Nitzan Horowitz, Soichi Noguchi, Gilles Panizzi, and Miguel Pardeza. After him are Guy Forget, Stefan Schwarzmann, Sergio Vázquez, Carlos Saldanha, James Tupper, and Bas Rutten.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yuji Naka ranks 1,522 out of 6,245. Before him are Tomoko Ohara (1957), Hiro Matsushita (1961), Kim Eui-tae (1941), Takashi Shimizu (1972), Haruhisa Hasegawa (1957), and Okuro Oikawa (1896). After him are Satoshi Tsunami (1961), Gege Akutami (1992), Shigeru Kasamatsu (1947), Ryuta Kawashima (1959), Kazuaki Nagasawa (1958), and Tooru Fujisawa (1967).

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Among GAME DESIGNERS In Japan

Among game designers born in Japan, Yuji Naka ranks 17. Before him are Hidetaka Miyazaki (1974), Yu Suzuki (1958), Kazunori Yamauchi (1967), Eiji Aonuma (1963), Masahiro Sakurai (1970), and Hideki Kamiya (1970). After him are Tetsuya Nomura (1970), Yuji Horii (1954), Yoshinori Kitase (1966), Koji Igarashi (1968), Yoko Taro (1970), and Naoto Ohshima (1964).

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