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...

moving laser cannon to earn as many points as possible. Designer Tomohiro Nishikado drew inspiration from North American target shooting games like Breakout...

former professional baseball player Tomohiro Nishikado (西角 友宏, born 1944), Japanese video game developer Tomohiro Nishimura (西村 智博, born 1961), Japanese...

is a 1975 multidirectional shooter arcade video game designed by Tomohiro Nishikado, and released by Taito in Japan and Europe and by Midway in North...

Elepong. It is a ping-pong arcade cabinet released in 1973 in Japan. Tomohiro Nishikado, a Tokyo Denki University engineering graduate who joined the company...

free dictionary. Space Invaders is an arcade video game designed by Tomohiro Nishikado in 1978. Space Invaders may also refer to: Space Invaders (Atari 2600...

arcade cabinets. In late 1974, Taito released Speed Race designed by Tomohiro Nishikado (of Space Invaders fame), in which the player drives down a straight...

free-roaming character movement of later FPS titles. In 1975, Taito's Tomohiro Nishikado adapted the concept of Sega's EM game Gun Fight into a video game...

America by distributor Midway Manufacturing in 1975. Designed by Tomohiro Nishikado, the gameplay involves the player using the attached steering wheel...

to Midway Manufacturing for release in North America. Designed by Tomohiro Nishikado, he wanted to move beyond simple Pong-style rectangles to character...

shooting video game released in 1978 by Taito. It was developed by Tomohiro Nishikado, who was inspired by other media: Breakout, The War of the Worlds...

being able to program them in BASIC was going to change the world. Tomohiro Nishikado cited Breakout as the original inspiration behind his hit Space Invaders...

the "first" or "original" in the genre. A seminal game created by Tomohiro Nishikado of Japan's Taito, it led to proliferation of shooter games. It pitted...

Western-themed shooter video games. Notably, the game's concept was adapted by Tomohiro Nishikado into Taito's shooter video game Western Gun (1975), which Midway released...

Space Invaders were inspired by Wells' Martians, as game designer Tomohiro Nishikado was a fan of the novel. Wells never gave the Martians a specific name...

then entered mass production in January 1980. It was designed by Tomohiro Nishikado, the creator of the original Space Invaders, and was made to clear...

Tamayama and programming by Tatsuya Kitasawa. Space Invaders creator Tomohiro Nishikado is credited for the remade arcade ports. Virtual Collection was met...

album 1977 by Ash Interceptor, a 1976 video game by Taito, created by Tomohiro Nishikado TIE Interceptor, a series of fictional starfighters in the Star Wars...

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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. Tomohiro Nishikado wanted to move beyond simple rectangles to character graphics, resulting...

by Tomohiro Nishikado at Taito, he drew inspiration from Atari's block-breaker game Breakout (1976) and several science fiction works. Nishikado added...

included a fallen Martian war machine more akin to the 1953 film. Tomohiro Nishikado, creator of the breakthrough 1978 video game Space Invaders, stated...

Space Invaders were inspired by Wells' Martians, as game designer Tomohiro Nishikado was a fan of the novel. 1979; 1982: The War of the Worlds (arcade...

game was designed by Tomohiro Nishikado, who drew inspiration from Atari's Breakout (1976) and the science fiction genre. Nishikado added several interactive...

Archived from the original on 2020-08-19. Retrieved 2018-03-05. "Tomohiro Nishikado – 2000 Developer Interview". Game Maestro. 1. 2000. Archived from...

programmable microprocessors rather than analog components. Taito designer Tomohiro Nishikado, who had developed Gun Fight previously, was inspired by Atari's Breakout...

1980s until the 1983 video game crash. Featured interviews include Tomohiro Nishikado, creator of Space Invaders; Rebecca Heineman, winner of the first...

games. February – Taito’s Basketball by pioneering game designer Tomohiro Nishikado features the first human-shaped characters in a coin-operated video...

Championship Medalist in Olympic Archery and Japan Olympic Team member. Tomohiro Nishikado, game designer programmer and creator of Space Invaders. Yutaka Ooe...