A well-known name in the US, European and Japanese amusement games industry from the 1980s and 1990s, Grant Freerks of Taito Corporation, has died.
He apparently passed away on June 28, but due to the long period of absence from the industry, news is only just filtering through.
He was a major link between the three main global video games markets during the heyday of the Taito Space Invaders game and subsequent games. A fluent Japanese speaker, Freerks was based in all three continents at different times, but mostly in London, looking after the European market. He was, however a familiar figure at Japanese trade shows through those two decades, only leaving Taito when the company went public.
