Shinji Mikami

Quick Facts

Full Name	Shinji Mikami
Occupation	Game Designer
Date Of Birth	Aug 11, 1965(1965-08-11)
Age	59
Birthplace	Iwakuni
Country	Japan
Birth City	Yamaguchi Prefecture
Horoscope	Leo

Shinji Mikami Biography

Shinji Mikami is one of the most popular and richest Game Designer who was born on August 11, 1965 in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. Most famous for his work in designing and producing the cult Resident Evil video game series the gaming entrepreneur collaborated on famous Capcom games like Ace Attorney and Devil May Cry. He started his own production company for video games, Tango Gameworks, in 2010.

He as well as Final Fantasy creator He and Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi both had prominent video game designing careers in Japan. both were prominent in their video game design professions in Japan.

Mikami attended a meet-and-greet for college graduates hosted by Capcom, and was interested in the presentation enough to apply. His application was initially rejected, then he was hired by Capcom a week later “out of the blue,” according to Mikami. He joined Capcom in 1990 as a junior game designer, and soon after created his first title there, a quiz game for the Game Boy titled Capcom Quiz: Hatena? no Daibōken. The game took over three months to develop. His following three games were all based on Disney-licensed properties: Who Framed Roger Rabbit for the Game Boy, and Aladdin and Goof Troop for the Super NES. Aladdin was his first hit, selling over 1.75 million units worldwide. Mikami also worked on Super Lap, an unreleased F1 racing game for the Game Boy that was scheduled to be released in 1992, but was canceled after eight months of development.

After the release of Goof Troop, Mikami began development in 1993 of a horror- themed adventure game for the PlayStation set in a haunted mansion, called Resident Evil, originally conceived as a remake of Sweet Home (an earlier Famicom game by Capcom based on the Japanese horror film of the same name). Resident Evil was initially conceived by Sweet Home director Tokuro Fujiwara; he entrusted Mikami, who was initially reluctant because he hated “being scared”, with the project, because he “understood what’s frightening.” Mikami said that Resident Evil was a response to his disappointment with Zombie, a gory 1979 film by Italian director Lucio Fulci; Mikami was determined to make a game with none of the failings of the movie. The resulting game became Biohazard, an action-adventure game which combined 3D polygonal characters and objects with pre-rendered backgrounds and featured zombies (among other monsters) heavily influenced by George A. Romero’s Dead films. The game was retitled Resident Evil during its English localization under Capcom USA’s suggestion and was released in Japan and North America on March 22, 1996, and became one of the PlayStation’s first successful titles. It was the first game to be dubbed a survival horror, a term Capcom coined to promote the game. It was later ported to the Sega Saturn.

He was raised and born in Japan’s Yamaguchi Prefecture.

Shinji Mikami Net Worth

Shinji Mikami is one of the richest Game Designer from Japan. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Shinji Mikami 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

After completing his studies in business through the Japanese Doshisha University, he began working for Capcom. At the beginning of his career he created Disney characters-based games for Super Nintendo as well as Game Boy.

Its Resident Evil series popularized the PlayStation video game console and also instigated a horror movie series.

Shinji Mikami (三上 真司 , Mikami Shinji, born August 11, 1965) is a Japanese video game designer, director, and producer. Starting his career at Capcom in 1990, he went on to direct many of the company’s biggest titles. He directed the first installment of the survival horror series Resident Evil in 1996 and the first installment of Dino Crisis in 1999. He returned to Resident Evil to direct the critically acclaimed remake of the first game in 2002. He returned to direct third person shooter Resident Evil 4 in 2005. In 2006, he directed his final Capcom game God Hand, a beat ’em up action game. Mikami worked at PlatinumGames to direct the third person shooter Vanquish in 2010. After that he created his own studio Tango Gameworks. Under that company, he directed the third person horror game The Evil Within. The company has since been acquired by the American company ZeniMax Media. He has also served the roles of producer and executive producer for many games.

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On November 12, 2002, Resident Evil Zero was released. Gaming site gamefront.de reported that 138,855 copies of the game were sold on its first day of release. Capcom expected Resident Evil Zero to sell 1.42 million copies, but sold only 1.12 million. The fact that Resident Evil Zero did not match or surpass the remake’s sales figures, spread fear among Capcom executives and share holders. They worried that Resident Evil 4 would not sell well enough on GameCube.

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The first of these games to be released was the Mikami-directed P.N. 03. The game was both a commercial and critical failure, receiving lukewarm reviews from the press and selling below expectations. As a result, Mikami stepped down as manager of Production Studio 4, while remaining as one of the head producers within the team. After his failure with P.N.03, Mikami decided to concentrate instead on the creative aspects of the Capcom 5. He eventually took over directorial duties for Resident Evil 4 from previous director, Hiroshi Shibata. Under his direction, Resident Evil 4 went through some substantial changes. Resident Evil 4 was released in 2005 and was one of the GameCube’s top-selling titles, selling 1,250,000 units worldwide within a year. The game was critically praised, winning many game of the year awards.