# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tomohiro-nishikado
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:57:44.640Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tomohiro-nishikado"
name: "Tomohiro Nishikado"
slug: "tomohiro-nishikado"
description: "Tomohiro Nishikado  is a Japanese video game developer and engineer. He is the creator of the arcade shoot 'em up game Space Invaders, released to the public in 1978 by the Taito Corporation of Japan, often credited as the first shoot 'em up and for beginning the golden age of arcade video games. Prior to Space Invaders, he also designed other earlier Taito arcade games, including the shooting electro-mechanical games Sky Fighter (1971) and Sky Fighter II, the sports video game TV Basketball in 1974, the vertical scrolling racing video game Speed Race in 1974, the multi-directional shooter Western Gun in 1975, and the first-person combat flight simulator Interceptor (1975)."
tagline: "Japanese video game designer, creator of the video game \"Space Invaders\" (born 1944)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tomohiro-nishikado.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
birthDate: "1944-03-31"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.23
  momentum:             3.779666416365167
  historical:           11.41498133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/5d8eadad-a2f4-46c6-b5c8-5bc8f7ee0130"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85%D9%88%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88_%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%88"
    title: "توموهيرو نيشيكادو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomohiro_Nishikado"
    title: "Tomohiro Nishikado"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomohiro_Nishikado"
    title: "Tomohiro Nishikado"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshihiro_Nishikado"
    title: "Toshihiro Nishikado"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomohiro_Nishikado"
    title: "Tomohiro Nishikado"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomohiro_Nishikado"
    title: "Tomohiro Nishikado"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomohiro_Nishikado"
    title: "Tomohiro Nishikado"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%A5%BF%E8%A7%92%E5%8F%8B%E5%AE%8F"
    title: "西角友宏"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomohiro_Nishikado"
    title: "Tomohiro Nishikado"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://se.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshihiro_Nishikado"
    title: "Toshihiro Nishikado"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomohiro_Nishikado"
    title: "Tomohiro Nishikado"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%A5%BF%E8%A7%92%E5%8F%8B%E5%AE%8F"
    title: "西角友宏"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q983176"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump