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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).
Creator of Pac-Man, Toru Iwatani, at the 2011 Game Developers Conference. The Japanese video game industry had surged in popularity with games such as Space Invaders and Breakout, which led to the market being flooded with similar titles from other manufacturers in an attempt to cash in on the success.
Pac-Man [a] is a fictional character and the titular protagonist of Bandai Namco Entertainment's video game franchise of the same name.Created by Toru Iwatani, he first appeared in the arcade game Pac-Man (1980), and has since appeared in more than 30 licensed sequels and spin-offs for multiple platforms, [5] and spawning mass amounts of merchandise in his image, including two television ...
Pac-Man [a] is a video game ... Atari and Mass Media, Inc., and was created by Toru Iwatani. The eponymous first entry was released in arcades in 1980 by Namco, ...
The best-selling video game on the console is Pac-Man, a port of the arcade game of the same name programmed by Tod Frye. [1] Originally created by Toru Iwatani and released in 1980, Pac-Man was later ported to many home video game consoles, beginning with the Atari 2600 in 1982. [2]
The visual style, tone and themes for "Secret Level" episodes are varied like the games they're based on, but most hit familiar beats. Then there's episode 6, "Pac-Man: Circle," a horror-tinged ...
Pac-Man Championship Edition [a] is a 2007 maze video game developed and published by Namco Bandai Games for the Xbox 360.It has since been released on several other platforms, including iOS, Android, and the PlayStation Portable as a PSP mini title available on the PlayStation Store (consequently playable on the PlayStation 3).
The ghosts were created by Toru Iwatani, who was the head designer for the original Pac-Man arcade game. The idea for the ghosts was made from Iwatani's desire to create a video game that could attract women and younger players, particularly couples, at a time where most video games were "war"-type games or Space Invaders clones.