Yoot Saito | |
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 Saito speaks at the 2017 Game Developers Conference | |
| Born | October 15, 1962 |
| Occupation | Video game designer |
| Known for | SimTower Seaman |
Yutaka "Yoot" Saito (斉藤 由多加, Saitō Yutaka, born October 15, 1962) is a Japanese video game designer. In 1996, he founded the video game development company Vivarium. His latest game is Aero Porter, which is part of a collection of games called Guild01 for the Nintendo 3DS. Yoot also developed Odama for the GameCube and Seaman.
His first major game release was SimTower (known and originally released as The Tower in Japan), developed by his previous company OPeNBooK Co., Ltd. and published by Maxis in 1994. He was also involved in the sequel, Yoot Tower (The Tower II in Japan), the Game Boy Advance remake called The Tower SP, and the Nintendo DS remake called The Tower DS. After founding Vivarium, he published some of his most famous games, including Seaman, a virtual pet game which was one of the best selling titles for the Dreamcast in Japan,[1] and Odama, a mix of pinball and real time strategy. Both of these games make use of their respective consoles' microphone peripherals.
- ^ GameSpy.com - Game Developers Conference 2002 Coverage Archived March 29, 2007, at the Wayback Machine