Tōru Iwatani (岩谷 徹, Iwatani Tōru, born January 25, 1955) is a Japanese video game designer who spent much of his career working for Namco. He is best known...

Tokiko Iwatani (岩谷 時子, 1916–2013), Japanese lyricist, poet and translator Toru Iwatani (岩谷 徹, born 1955), Japanese video game designer Toshio Iwatani (岩谷...

points. Game development began in early 1979, directed by Toru Iwatani with a nine-man team. Iwatani wanted to create a game that could appeal to women as...

quartet of characters from the Pac-Man video game franchise. Created by Toru Iwatani, they first appear in the 1980 arcade game Pac-Man as the main antagonists...

protagonist of the video game franchise of the same name. Created by Toru Iwatani, he first appeared in the arcade game Pac-Man (1980), and has since appeared...

Tōru is a masculine Japanese given name. Tōru can be expressed with several kanji. Some examples: 徹, "penetrate" 透, "transparent" 享, "enjoy" 亨, "smoothly"...

including Midway Games, Atari and Mass Media, Inc., and was created by Toru Iwatani. The eponymous first entry was released in arcades in 1980 by Namco,...

pop bumpers and other objects in the playfield. It was developed by Toru Iwatani, known as the creator of Pac-Man and Pole Position. Outside Japan, it...

previously released Ms. Pac-Man, which Namco had little involvement with. Toru Iwatani returns as designer. Sound and gameplay mechanics were altered radically...

alongside producer Nobutaka Nakajima and designer and the father of Pac-Man, Toru Iwatani, the original creator of Pac-Man — Championship Edition was the final...