GAME DESIGNER

Yuji Horii

1954 - Today

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Yuji Horii (堀井 雄二, Horii Yūji; born January 6, 1954) is a Japanese author, video game designer, writer and director best known as the creator of the Dragon Quest franchise, supervising and writing the scenario for Chrono Trigger, and The Portopia Serial Murder Case, released in 1983 as one of the first visual novel adventure games. Horii is CEO of his own company, Armor Project, a company that has an exclusive production contract with Square Enix, a contract established with Enix before the company merged with Square, and is also one of the companies who co-own the Dragon Quest franchise alongside Square Enix. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yuji Horii is the 38th most popular game designer (up from 41st in 2019), the 1,651st most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,587th in 2019) and the 19th most popular Japanese Game Designer.

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Among GAME DESIGNERS

Among game designers, Yuji Horii ranks 38 out of 77. Before him are Kazunori Yamauchi, Roberta Williams, Hideki Kamiya, Eiji Aonuma, Chris Taylor, and John Romero. After him are Tetsuya Nomura, Dave Arneson, Yuji Naka, Tim Cain, Jeff Kaplan, and Mike Harrington.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Yuji Horii ranks 470. Before him are Zoran Simović, Alfonso Zamora, Dominique Bathenay, Irina Levitina, Andrzej Sekuła, and Lou Pearlman. After him are José Diego, Silvio Micali, Gerónimo Barbadillo, Yuji Takada, Verner Lička, and Raymond T. Odierno.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yuji Horii ranks 1,651 out of 6,245. Before him are Shuntaro Furukawa (1972), Takao Sakurai (1941), Kunio Hatoyama (1948), Takahiro Sakurai (1974), Toshio Masuda (1959), and Seiji Ueda (1952). After him are LiSA (1987), Nikka Costa (1972), Kazumasa Shimizu (1976), Ryota Takahashi (1986), Yoshioka Yayoi (1871), and Minato Yoshida (1992).

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Among GAME DESIGNERS In Japan

Among game designers born in Japan, Yuji Horii ranks 19. Before him are Masahiro Sakurai (1970), Yoko Taro (1970), Yu Suzuki (1958), Kazunori Yamauchi (1967), Hideki Kamiya (1970), and Eiji Aonuma (1963). After him are Tetsuya Nomura (1970), Yuji Naka (1965), Yoshinori Kitase (1966), Goichi Suda (1968), Koji Igarashi (1968), and Yoshiaki Koizumi (1968).

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