Toru Iwatani

Toru Iwatani

🇯🇵Japan

Tōru Iwatani 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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1955 – Present
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  • 1955

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