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Yu Suzuki

1958 - Today

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Yu Suzuki (鈴木 裕, Suzuki Yū; born June 10, 1958) is a Japanese game designer, producer, programmer, and engineer, who headed Sega's AM2 team for 18 years. Considered one of the first auteurs of video games, he has been responsible for a number of Sega's arcade hits, including three-dimensional sprite-scaling games that used "taikan" motion simulator arcade cabinets, such as Hang-On, Space Harrier, Out Run and After Burner, and pioneering polygonal 3D games such as Virtua Racing and Virtua Fighter, which are some of the games besides others from rival companies during that era credited with popularizing 3D graphics in video games; as well as the critically acclaimed Shenmue series. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yu Suzuki is the 30th most popular game designer (down from 24th in 2019), the 1,427th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,262nd in 2019) and the 15th most popular Japanese Game Designer.

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Among GAME DESIGNERS

Among game designers, Yu Suzuki ranks 30 out of 77. Before him are Hidetaka Miyazaki, Reiner Knizia, Carol Shaw, Will Wright, Masahiro Sakurai, and Yoko Taro. After him are Peter Molyneux, Kazunori Yamauchi, Roberta Williams, Hideki Kamiya, Eiji Aonuma, and Chris Taylor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1958, Yu Suzuki ranks 299. Before him are Susanna Thompson, Wendie Jo Sperber, Julio Medem, Wafa Sultan, Mike Rogers, and Gcina Mhlophe. After him are Andreas Wenzel, Philippa York, Patricia Heaton, Margaret Colin, Olivier Marchal, and Andriy Bal.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yu Suzuki ranks 1,427 out of 6,245. Before him are Izumi Sakai (1967), Ichiya Kumagae (1890), Hirotugu Akaike (1927), Masayuki Maegawa (1984), Kiyotaka Matsui (1961), and Haruhiro Yamashita (1938). After him are Takeshi Koshida (1960), Mami Kaneda (1968), Akira Ishida (1967), Kei Sugimoto (1982), Tamlyn Tomita (1966), and Yukihiro Matsumoto (1965).

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Among GAME DESIGNERS In Japan

Among game designers born in Japan, Yu Suzuki ranks 15. Before him are Hironobu Sakaguchi (1962), Shinji Mikami (1965), Naoto Ohshima (1964), Hidetaka Miyazaki (1974), Masahiro Sakurai (1970), and Yoko Taro (1970). After him are Kazunori Yamauchi (1967), Hideki Kamiya (1970), Eiji Aonuma (1963), Yuji Horii (1954), Tetsuya Nomura (1970), and Yuji Naka (1965).

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