Video game designer
Tomohiro Nishikado
Created Space Invaders single handed in 1978, building his own hardware because none was fast enough.
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).
- Born
- 1944-03-31, Kishiwada, JapanA Friday
- At birth
- Sun in Aries, Moon in Cancer
- Nationality
- Japan
- Birth-time source
- No birth time on record: Rodden X
Born
At birth
Nationality
Birth-time sourceBirth Chart
1944-03-31, Kishiwada, Japan · time unknown, noon chart
Asia/Tokyothe zone used then
Asia/TokyoThe chart
| Body | Sign | Degree | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Aries | 10°16′ | Direct |
| Moon | Cancer | 5°44′ | Direct |
| Mercury | Aries | 23°31′ | Direct |
| Venus | Pisces | 17°14′ | Direct |
| Mars | Cancer | 1°21′ | Direct |
| Jupiter | Leo | 17°17′ | Retrograde |
| Saturn | Gemini | 21°06′ | Direct |
| Uranus | Gemini | 5°47′ | Direct |
| Neptune | Libra | 2°40′ | Retrograde |
| Pluto | Leo | 6°28′ | Retrograde |
Tomohiro Nishikado is alive, so there is one chart here rather than two. The death chart is cast for a documented moment of death and there is nothing to cast one for, which is the point: this site does not estimate either end.
Their Astrocartography
Where each planet sat on one of the four angles at the moment Tomohiro Nishikado was born. Tap a line to read what the tradition associates with it.
Cast for noon, as the birth time is unknown, so the longitudes are approximate.