Rieko Kodama was a Japanese video game artist, director, and producer who was active in the gaming world for over three decades. Rieko Kodama was nicknamed Phoenix Rie and she worked actively for the Japanese multinational video game company called Sega.
Rieko Kodama has contributed to the development of a number of video games and some of them include Champion Boxing, Sega Ninja, Altered Beast, The Black Onyx, Mystic Defender, Sonic the Hedgehog, Skies of Arcadia, Project Altered Beast, and others.
Rieko Kodama Obituary
Rieko Kodama was born in Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan, in May 1963 and died on May 9, 2022, at the age of 59 years. The cause of the death of Rieko Kodama is yet to be made public.
Despite dying some five months ago, the family of Rieko Kodama kept the news very private away from the media scenes. The death of Rieko Kodama was reported online on October 27, 2022, and the news shocked many of his fans in all parts of the world.