Tomohiro Nishikado
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Tomohiro Nishikado is a Japanese video game developer and engineer. He is the creator of the arcade shoot 'em up game Space Invaders, released to the public in 1978 by the Taito of Japan, often credited as the first shoot 'em up and for beginning the golden age of video arcade games. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Tomohiro+Nishikado">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Japan
- Place of birth
- Kishiwada
- Occupation
- designer
- Educated at
- Tokyo Denki University
- Notable work
- Space Invaders
- Field of work
- video game
- Image
- Tomohiro-nishikado.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1944-03-31
- name in kana
- にしかど ともひろ
- name in native language
- 西角友宏
- has works in the collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- floruit
- 2015-01-01
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