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Tōru Iwatani

video game designer

Born: Japanese

Tōru Iwatani (岩谷 徹, Iwatani Tōru; 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.

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Japanese video game designer

Tōru Iwatani's Historical Timeline

  1. Tōru Iwatani is born

    Tōru Iwatani, Japanese video game designer, known for japanese video game designer, was born on 1955-01-25.

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Tōru Iwatani was born on 1955-01-25 (Japanese).
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Japanese video game designer
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