
Yoshiki Okamoto is a veteran Japanese video game designer and producer with a 40-year career. He’s been credited on 149 video games, notably contributing to arcade hits like Time Pilot and Gyruss, which helped establish key elements of the shoot ’em up genre in the early 1980s. He started at Capcom in 1984, continuing to design games-including Street Fighter 2-until the early 1990s, while also taking on leadership roles as a director and producer. Later in his career, he served as an executive producer on titles such as Resident Evil 2, Dino Crisis, Breath of Fire 4, Devil May Cry 2, and Dragon Ball: Origins, among many others. Currently, as of 2025, Okamoto is the chairman of the Japan Game Culture Foundation, an organization dedicated to supporting independent game developers in Japan.