Masami Maruyama

Masami Maruyama (丸山 正美) is a Bellevue-based Japanese video game designer, voice actor, YouTuber and game tester. He is the cousin of anime producer. He currently works at since he got employed by the company in January 1997.

Bio
Maruyama was born on August 1, 1942 in Shibuya, Tokyo. He and Masao were rivals since elementary school until junior high school.

On February 5, 1984, Maruyama won a lottery, bid farewell to Masao and his family and went to for a ticket to. In March 1984, he joined as a game tester, with the first game that started his game testing career being.

On August 12, 1988, Maruyama saw. On July 1, 1991, he gained four tickets to see during his trip to.

On January 15, 1997, Maruyama went to for a hotel, and would go on to see  two days later. On January 18, Maruyama won a lottery and went to to look for a job until being employed by Valve Software that day, thus beginning his game designing career.

On January 31, 2009, Maruyama created his YouTube channel under the name of NotebookMaggie65. His videos consisted of his travels of various Chinatown and Japantown places, foreign food and his gameplays of various and random video games. As of March 2019, his channel has 40 million subscribers and some of his videos gained 1 billion and 1 million views.

Filmography

 * (1984) - Game Tester
 * (1985) - Game Tester
 * (1986) - Game Tester
 * (1988) - Game Tester
 * (1989) - Game Tester
 * (1991) - Game Tester
 * (1992) - Game Tester
 * (1993) - Game Tester
 * (1993) - Game Tester
 * (1993) - Game Tester
 * (1997) - Pedestrians (voice)
 * (1998) - Programmer
 * (1999) - Programmer
 * Story of Genji Agedama (1999) - Designer (Valve's co-production with LucasArts)
 * (2000) - Programmer
 * Ebichu the Housekeeping Hamster (2003) - Game Designer (Valve's co-production with Rockstar Games)
 * (2003) - Japanese Pilots (voice)
 * (2004) - Programmer
 * Jankenman: The PC Game (2004) - Game Designer
 * Cardcaptor Sakura: The Game (2005) - Game Designer
 * (2006) - Programmer
 * (2007) - Programmer
 * (2008) - Japanese Soldiers (voice)
 * Animal Mechanics: The Game (2009) - Game Designer (Valve's co-production with Monolith Productions)
 * Slayers: The Video Game (2012) - Game Designer
 * (2013) - Programmer
 * (2017) - Japanese Soldiers (voice)
 * (2020) - Programmer

Favorite movies/Movies he watched

 * (1997)
 * (1991)
 * (1988)