Swan song for Toru Iwatani
Pac Man was reborn on Microsoft Corp.’s
Xbox Live online service on Wednesday as a final tribute for designer Toru
Iwatani, who is retiring from the $30 billion games industry he helped
ignite.
Pac Man was reborn on Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox
Live online service on Wednesday as a final tribute for designer Toru Iwatani, who
is retiring from the $30 billion games industry he helped
ignite.
The new game, “Pac Man Championship Edition,” is the second and final version Iwatani personally designed, and was created for the final round of the Xbox 360 Pac-Man World Championship in New York, when nine finalists played it for the first time.
Iwatani, 52, an employee of Japan’s Namco Bandai Holdings, said in an interview he will retire from active duty at Namco and spend more time teaching the next generation of game designers at Tokyo Polytechnic University.
Interesting contradiction in the article - when Iwatani, who teaches game designers, says the future of the games industry lies not with professional creators, but outsiders.
The new game, “Pac Man Championship Edition,” is the second and final version Iwatani personally designed, and was created for the final round of the Xbox 360 Pac-Man World Championship in New York, when nine finalists played it for the first time.
Iwatani, 52, an employee of Japan’s Namco Bandai Holdings, said in an interview he will retire from active duty at Namco and spend more time teaching the next generation of game designers at Tokyo Polytechnic University.
Interesting contradiction in the article - when Iwatani, who teaches game designers, says the future of the games industry lies not with professional creators, but outsiders.
Posted: Thu - June 7, 2007 at 06:51 AM