Toru Iwatani Quotes

• I had no special training at all; I am completely self-taught. I don’t fit the mold of a visual arts designer or a graphic designer. I just had a strong concept about what a game designer is – someone who designs projects to make people happy. That’s his purpose.

  Toru Iwatani

  Art, Strong, Self

  "Toru Iwatani, 1986 PacMan Designer". Interview with Susan Lammers, programmersatwork.wordpress.com. 1986.

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• I thought that one of the things women like to do is eat. So I started working on a game concept based on eating.

  Toru Iwatani

  Games, Eating, Concepts

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• So there I was, wondering what sort of things women would look for in a video game. I sat in cafés and listened to what they were talking about: mostly it was fashion and boyfriends. Neither of those was really the stuff of a good video game. Then they started talking about food - about cakes and sweets and fruit - and it hit me: that food and eating would be the thing to concentrate on to get the girls interested.

  Toru Iwatani

  Girl, Fashion, Sweet

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