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Tomohiro Nishikado (西角 友宏, Nishikado Tomohiro, born March 31, 1944) 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 Corporation of Japan , often credited as the first shoot 'em up [1] and for beginning the golden ...
Apr 12, 2023 · A new mini arcade cab version of the iconic alien shooter is set to land, 45 years after Tomohiro Nishikado’s surprise hit changed gaming forever.
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Oct 17, 2013 · The Space Invader. By Simon Parkin. October 17, 2013. “I am terrible at video games,” Tomohiro Nishikado says. His admission sounds hardly unusual for a man of sixty-nine, but it’s a secret that...
Jan 12, 2022 · As the creator of the revolutionary Space Invaders, Tomohiro Nishikado could rightly be called the Father of Japanese video games. This long interview from the jp book “game maestro” covers Nishikado’s early years at Taito as an engineer developing sophisticated (for their time) electro-mechanical games before getting into the ...
Tomohiro Nishikado (born March 31, 1944 in Osaka) is a Japanese video game developer. Nishikado was the designer behind some of Taito 's biggest arcade hits of the 1970s, including the four-player Pong variants Soccer and Davis Cup in 1973, Basketball (1974) which introduced human player sprites, the seminal racing game Speed Race (1974) which ...
Jun 6, 2019 · This oral history with Tomohiro Nishikado, hardware and software engineer, was conducted by the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs at the Ritsumeikan Center for Game Studies in Hitotsubashi University.
