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Tōru Iwatani
Sign in to saveAlso known as Iwatani Tōru, Toru Iwatani, Touru Iwatani
Japanese video game designer, creator of Pac-Man (born 1955)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Video Games Around the World
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Film & TV
Meguro, Tokyo, Japan
Toru Iwatani (born January 25, 1955) is a Japanese video game designer who spent much of his career working for Namco. He is best known as the creator of the arcade game Pac-Man (1980). In 2009, he was chosen by IGN as one of the top 100 game creators of all time.
Known for
- High Score — Self2020
- Pixels — Electric Dream Factory Repairman2015
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 4
- Total plays
- 7
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Tōru
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Japan
- Place of birth
- Meguro
- Educated at
- Tokai University
- Employer
- Tokyo Polytechnic University
- Languages spoken
- Japanese
- Notable work
- Pac-Man
- Image
- Toru Iwatani Gamelab Barcelona 2015 (crop).png
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- date of birth
- 1955-01-25
- name in kana
- いわたに とおる
- has works in the collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- name in native language
- 岩谷徹
- Commons category
- Tōru Iwatani
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