Toru Iwatani
personal-info
known-for
Acting
gender
Male
birthday
1955-01-25
place-of-birth
Meguro, Tokyo, Japan
also-known-as
Tōru Iwatani
岩谷 徹
Iwatani Tōru
biography
Toru Iwatani (born January 25, 1955) is a Japanese video game designer who spent much of his career working for Namco. He is best known as the creator of the arcade game Pac-Man (1980). In 2009, he was chosen by IGN as one of the top 100 game creators of all time.