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 age of arcade video games.[2] Prior to Space Invaders, he also designed other earlier Taito arcade games, including the shooting electro-mechanical games Sky Fighter (1971) and Sky Fighter II, the sports video game TV Basketball in 1974, the vertical scrolling racing video game Speed Race (also known as Wheels) in 1974, the multi-directional shooter Western Gun (also known as Gun Fight) in 1975, and the first-person combat flight simulator Interceptor (1975).
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TomohiroNishikado (西角 友宏, NishikadoTomohiro, born March 31, 1944) is a Japanese video game developer and engineer. He is the creator of the arcade shoot...
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then entered mass production in January 1980. It was designed by TomohiroNishikado, the creator of the original Space Invaders, and was made to clear...
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first major mainstream breakthrough for video games in Japan. Created by Nishikado at Japan's Taito, Space Invaders pitted the player against multiple enemies...
set boundaries around the screen and only a small gap for the goal. TomohiroNishikado wanted to move beyond simple rectangles to character graphics, resulting...
by TomohiroNishikado at Taito, he drew inspiration from Atari's block-breaker game Breakout (1976) and several science fiction works. Nishikado added...
Archived from the original on 2020-08-19. Retrieved 2018-03-05. "TomohiroNishikado – 2000 Developer Interview". Game Maestro. 1. 2000. Archived from...
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tune in TomohiroNishikado's arcade game Gun Fight (1975). The first video game to use a continuous background soundtrack was TomohiroNishikado's 1978 release...
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