Masayuki Uemura

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Masayuki Uemura
上村雅之
Born(1943-06-20)20 June 1943
Died6 December 2021(2021-12-06) (aged 78)
Alma materChiba Institute of Technology[2]
OccupationGeneral Manager at Nintendo R&D2
Professor at Ritsumeikan University

Uemura died on 6 December 2021, at the age of 78.[3]

References

  1. "Masayuki Uemura". Books from Japan. Archived from the original on 4 December 2015. Retrieved 10 December 2021.
  2. "「ファミコン生みの親」、大学教授に". imidas (in Japanese). November 2002. Retrieved 1 May 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  3. Dooley, Ben; Ueno, Hisako (2021-12-13). "Masayuki Uemura, 78, Dies; Designed the First Nintendo Console" (in en-US). The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331 . https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/13/technology/masayuki-uemura-dead.html. Retrieved 2021-12-15.