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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 former Japanese 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 1,027,065 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Yuji Naka is the 32nd most popular game designer, the 1,460th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,343rd in 2019) and the 17th most popular Japanese Game Designer.

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  • 1.0M

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  • 41.92

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.22

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among GAME DESIGNERS

Among game designers, Yuji Naka ranks 32 out of 56Before him are John Romero, Yu Suzuki, Eiji Aonuma, Tetsuya Nomura, Dave Arneson, and Yuji Horii. After him are Hideki Kamiya, Ron Gilbert, Roberta Williams, Scott Cawthon, Ed Boon, and Kazunori Yamauchi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1965, Yuji Naka ranks 342Before him are Johnny Ekström, Norbert Röttgen, Valdir Benedito, Omid Djalili, Terry Richardson, and Kevin Dillon. After him are Larisa Lazutina, Rolf Sørensen, Richard Grieco, Hamed Bakayoko, Olivier Megaton, and Brett Kavanaugh.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yuji Naka ranks 1,460 out of 6,048Before him are Okuro Oikawa (1896), Eijun Kiyokumo (1950), Tsuyoshi Yamanaka (1939), Kumiko Okae (1956), Norihiro Yagi (1968), and Masaaki Shirakawa (1949). After him are Jong Tae-se (1984), Hikaru Nakamura (1987), Toshiaki Imai (1954), Asuka (1981), Tomohisa Yamashita (1985), and Takao Sakurai (1941).

Among GAME DESIGNERS In Japan

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

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