Yoshiki Okamoto (岡本 吉起, Okamoto Yoshiki, born June 10, 1961), sometimes credited as Kihaji Okamoto, is a Japanese video game designer. He is credited with producing popular titles for Konami, including Gyruss and Time Pilot, and for Capcom, including 1942, Gun.Smoke, Final Fight and Street Fighter II. He later founded the companies Flagship and Game Republic, and then created the hit mobile games Dragon Hunter and Monster Strike for Mixi. He also played a role in the creation of Rockstar's Red Dead franchise. Several franchises he helped create are among the highest-grossing video game franchises of all time, including Street Fighter II, Monster Strike and Red Dead.
YoshikiOkamoto (岡本 吉起, OkamotoYoshiki, born June 10, 1961), sometimes credited as Kihaji Okamoto, is a Japanese video game designer. He is credited with...
was released in January 2019. The series originated in 1997, with YoshikiOkamoto's idea to create Sengoku Biohazard, a ninja version of Capcom's own...
Android platforms. The game was created by former Capcom game designer YoshikiOkamoto. In Japan, its name is often shortened to MonSt (モンスト, Monsuto). The...
Pilot is a multidirectional shooter arcade video game designed by YoshikiOkamoto and released by Konami in 1982. It was distributed in the United States...
as "Planning Rooms", led by Tokuro Fujiwara, Takashi Nishiyama and YoshikiOkamoto. Later, games developed internally were created by several numbered...
Gyruss (ジャイラス, Jairasu) is shoot 'em up arcade video game designed by YoshikiOkamoto and released by Konami in 1983. Gyruss was initially licensed to Centuri...
footballer YoshikiOkamoto (岡本 吉起, born 1961), Japanese video game designer Yoshiki Okamura (岡村 宜城, born 1977), Japanese footballer Yoshiki Onoda (小野田...
acquired and rebranded by Rockstar Games as Rockstar San Diego. After YoshikiOkamoto left Capcom in 2003, Red Dead Revolver was canceled until Rockstar...
American photographer Yoriko Okamoto (岡本 依子, born 1971), first Japanese athlete to become an Olympic taekwondo medalist YoshikiOkamoto (岡本 吉起, born 1961), video...
300 individuals before its closure, was founded on July 1, 2003 by YoshikiOkamoto after he departed from Capcom. He began working at rival game developer...
after Final Fight was commercially successful in the United States. YoshikiOkamoto recounted, "The basic idea at Capcom was to revive Street Fighter,...
Fighter II creator YoshikiOkamoto says. Eventually, Zangief was nerfed so much, that this player would occasionally lose. Okamoto later said in a video...
Circuit. This version was developed by producers Noritaka Funamizu and YoshikiOkamoto of Capcom's arcade production team. While structurally very similar...
data. The game started off as a regular side-scrolling shooter, but YoshikiOkamoto wanted a more imaginative game. During development, Capcom tried to...
Evil, Sugimura became involved with Capcom when he was introduced to YoshikiOkamoto during the production of Resident Evil 2. Initially consulted on a...
"PlayStation re-ignited our imagination with video games". Game designers YoshikiOkamoto called the brand "revolutionary — PlayStation has changed gaming, distribution...
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