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Toru Iwatani
Person

Toru Iwatani

Specialty
Acting
Birth
January 25, 1955 · 71 years
Origin
Meguro, Tokyo, Japan

Technical Alias

Tōru Iwatani岩谷 徹Iwatani Tōru

Professional Trajectory

Toru Iwatani (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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