Tomohiro Nishikado

Tomohiro Nishikado, (Japanese:西 角 友 宏, born in 1944 in Osaka, Japan) is a Japanese video game developer.

After graduating from the Tokyo Denki University, Department of Communication Nishikado was game developers. In the 1970s, he initially developed for Taito video game Speed ​​Race and then a video game in which he initially wanted to be a fight against an army. After concerns by Taito he changed, however, inspired by the developed in the United States movie Star Wars the scenario to an attack by aliens and called the game Space Invaders. The 1978 published on arcade machines game led to a coin starvation has arrived in Japan, which caused a fourfold increase in the yen - stamping. After 1982 Nishikado worked as a hardware developer. On March 10, 1996 left Nishikado Taito and founded the company Dreams, Inc., where he works to this day as president.

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  • Space Invaders in the Killer List of Video Games (English )
  • Interview with Tomohiro Nishikado on gamehunters.com (English)
  • Biography of Tomohiro Nishikado on his company's website (Japanese)
  • Game developer
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  • Born in 1944
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Taito Corporation Video game arcade cabinet Killer List of Videogames
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