Shinji Mikami (三上真司, Mikami Shinji, born August 11, 1965) is a Japanese video game designer best known for creating the Resident Evil survival horror series (known as Biohazard in Japan), and has also contributed in the creation of some of Capcom's most popular post-32-bit era franchises, including Viewtiful Joe and Devil May Cry as an executive producer.
Mikami first joined Capcom in 1990 as a planner for the company after graduating at the Dosh...
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Shinji Mikami (三上真司, Mikami Shinji, born August 11, 1965) is a Japanese video game designer best known for creating the Resident Evil survival horror series (known as Biohazard in Japan), and has also contributed in the creation of some of Capcom's most popular post-32-bit era franchises, including Viewtiful Joe and Devil May Cry as an executive producer.
Mikami first joined Capcom in 1990 as a planner for the company after graduating at the Doshisha University. His first title within Capcom was a quiz game for the Game Boy titled Capcom Quiz: Hatena hatena no Daibôken, which took over three months to develop. His following three games were all based on Disney-licensed properties; Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1991, Game Boy), Aladdin (1993, SNES) and Goof Troop (1994, SNES). Mikami also worked on an untitled F1 racing game that was cancelled by the company after eight months of development.
After the release of Goof Troop, Mikami began development of a horror-themed adventure game for...
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