Japanese engineer, video game producer, and professor (1943–2021)
Masayuki Uemura
上村雅之
Uemura in 1985, testing the Famicom
Born
(1943-06-20)20 June 1943
Tokyo, Japan[1]
Died
6 December 2021(2021-12-06) (aged 78)
Akita City, Japan
Alma mater
Chiba Institute of Technology[2]
Occupation(s)
General Manager at Nintendo R&D2 Professor at Ritsumeikan University
Masayuki Uemura (上村雅之, Uemura Masayuki, 20 June 1943 – 6 December 2021) was a Japanese engineer, video game producer, and professor. He was known for his work as an employee of Nintendo from 1971 to 2004, most notably for serving as a key factor in the development of the Nintendo Entertainment System.
A former employee of Sharp Corporation, Uemura joined Nintendo in 1971[3][4] working with Gunpei Yokoi and Genyo Takeda on solar cell technology for the Laser Clay Shooting System arcade game.[5][6][7][8] After becoming General Manager of Nintendo R&D2, Uemura served as the lead architect for the Nintendo Entertainment System and Super NES game consoles.[9][10][11][12][13][14] He retired from Nintendo in 2004 and became director for the Center for Game Studies at Ritsumeikan University.[2][15]
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