Yutaka Saitō
aka:
Yoot Saito
Moby ID: 34721
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Yutaka "Yoot" Saito (b. 1962) founded the Japanese companies OPeNBooK Co., Ltd. in 1993 and VIVARIUM in April 1996. Later, after the merger of OPeNBooK Co., Ltd. and 9003 inc. into OPeNBooK9003 inc. in October 1996 he left the company and remained with VIVARIUM. In 2000 the original OPeNBooK Co., Ltd. staff from OPeNBooK9003 inc. left the company to form OPeNBooK, which merged back into VIVARIUM to form VIVARIUM Inc. in October 2004.
In November 2008 it became known he was working on GABO!, an iPhone game starring a primitive character, but Apple eventually rejected the game.
Yutaka Saito is especially known as the designer of games such as Seaman, Odama and his first major release SimTower.
Credited on 6 games
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Odama (2006, GameCube) | Producer |
The Tower SP (2005, Game Boy Advance) | Game Design |
D-2 (1999, Dreamcast) | The Producer Wishes to Thank |
Seaman (1999, Dreamcast) | Producer |
Yoot Tower (1998, Macintosh) | GameDesign |
SimTower: The Vertical Empire (1994, Macintosh) | Concept & Game Design |
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Frequent Collaborators
People- 3 games with Atsushi Hotta
- 3 games with Rick Ribble Jr.
- 3 games with Tsuneo Kaneda
- 3 games with Fumiki Tomioka
- 3 games with Motoko Miura
- 3 games with Rieko Nakajima
- 2 games with Shigeru Miyamoto
- 2 games with Shinobu Shindo
- 2 games with Jin Shimazaki
- 2 games with Yasuo Inoue
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Companies
- 4 games with SEGA of America, Inc.
- 3 games with VIVARIUM Inc.
- 2 games with Sha-la-la Company Co., Ltd.
- 2 games with Nintendo Co., Ltd.
- 1 game with StudioFAKE Co., Ltd.
- 1 game with Nuance Communications, Inc.
- 1 game with OPeNBooK Co., Ltd.
- 1 game with Nintendo of Europe GmbH
- 1 game with Maxis Software Inc.
- 1 game with Cinomix, inc.
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