GAME DESIGNER

Shinji Mikami

1965 - Today

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Shinji Mikami (三上 真司, Mikami Shinji; born August 11, 1965) is a Japanese video game designer, director, and producer. Starting his career at Capcom in 1990, he has worked on many of the company's most successful games. He directed the first installment of the Resident Evil series in 1996 and the first installment of the Dino Crisis series in 1999, both survival horror games. He returned to Resident Evil to direct the remake of the first game in 2002 and the survival horror third-person shooter Resident Evil 4 in 2005. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Shinji Mikami is the 22nd most popular game designer (down from 14th in 2019), the 1,163rd most popular biography from Japan (down from 978th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Japanese Game Designer.

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Among GAME DESIGNERS

Among game designers, Shinji Mikami ranks 22 out of 77. Before her are Todd Howard, Steve Jackson, Shigesato Itoi, Masayuki Uemura, Klaus Teuber, and Hironobu Sakaguchi. After her are Naoto Ohshima, Hidetaka Miyazaki, Reiner Knizia, Carol Shaw, Will Wright, and Masahiro Sakurai.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1965, Shinji Mikami ranks 186. Before her are Suge Knight, Jocelyn Angloma, Paweł Adamowicz, Shinichirō Watanabe, Dexter Holland, and Kim Bodnia. After her are Paulina Porizkova, Salman bin Ibrahim Al Khalifa, Yuki Kajiura, Uwe Boll, Christine Elise, and Keiko Saito.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Shinji Mikami ranks 1,163 out of 6,245. Before her are Hironobu Sakaguchi (1962), Akihito Kusunose (1986), Takeshi Okada (1956), Shigeo Arai (1916), Tsukasa Hojo (1959), and Masako Yoshida (1957). After her are Kōichi Kido (1889), Shinobu Hashimoto (1918), Ayako Wakao (1933), Naoki Matsushita (1978), Toshio Furukawa (1946), and Kyoko Kuroda (1969).

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Among GAME DESIGNERS In Japan

Among game designers born in Japan, Shinji Mikami ranks 10. Before her are Gunpei Yokoi (1941), Toru Iwatani (1955), Satoshi Tajiri (1965), Shigesato Itoi (1948), Masayuki Uemura (1943), and Hironobu Sakaguchi (1962). After her are Naoto Ohshima (1964), Hidetaka Miyazaki (1974), Masahiro Sakurai (1970), Yoko Taro (1970), Yu Suzuki (1958), and Kazunori Yamauchi (1967).

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