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Kōichi Nakamura is a Japanese video game designer. A programming prodigy, Nakamura gained fame while still in high school; in 1982 he entered Enix's national programming contest and claimed first place with his entry, Door Door. In 1984, he founded the video game company Chunsoft, of which he is currently President. Nakamura was a member of the math club at Marugame High School in Kagawa Prefecture, Japan. There he ported the video game... Galaxy Wars to the BASIC programming language on a Tandy TRS-80, among other projects. In order to play games such as Galaxian that were ported to the NEC PC-8001 by Geimu Kyoujin from I/O magazine, Nakamura bought a PC-8001 using money he'd saved up by delivering newspapers. It was on that PC-8001 that he developed his program submissions. He submitted a machine code input tool to I/O magazine, which was published in the February, 1981 issue as his debut publication, earning him 20,000 yen for his work. From that experience, spring break of his first year in high school found Nakamura porting the arcade game Space Panic as ALIEN Part II, published in the May, 1981 issue.
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Yūji Horii is a Japanese video game designer and scenario writer best known as the creator of the seminal Dragon Quest series of console role-playing games, as well as the first visual novel adventure game Portopia Serial Murder Case. Horii graduated from Waseda University's Department of Literature. He also worked as a freelance writer for newspapers, comics, and magazines, including a video games column in Weekly Shōnen Jump. He... then entered in an Enix-sponsored game programming contest, where he placed with Love Match Tennis, a tennis video game, motivating him to become a video game designer. Horii then created the first visual novel game, Portopia Serial Murder Case, a game that later inspired Hideo Kojima to enter the video game industry. After creating several more visual novel adventure games, Horii went on to create Dragon Quest, which is recognized as the first role-playing game to posit the idea of spendable magic points for the resolution of spells and actions. As such, Mr. Horii is acknowledged as the "Father of Mana.
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The Enix Corporation was a Japanese company that produced video games, anime and manga. The company was founded by Yasuhiro Fukushima on September 22, 1975 as Eidansha Boshu Service Center and renamed Enix in 1982. The name is a play on the words "phoenix", a mythical bird that is reborn from its... own ashes, and "ENIAC", the world's first digital computer. Enix is perhaps best known for publishing the Dragon Quest series of role-playing video games. The company merged with Square in 2003 to become Square Enix. Enix was founded on September 22, 1975 as Eidansha Boshu Service Center by Japanese architect-turned-entrepreneur Yasuhiro Fukushima. The company initially published tabloids that advertised real estate. After a failed attempt to go nationwide in 1982, the newly renamed Enix began its foray into the gaming market by holding a personal computer game programming contest. One of the winners was Love Match Tennis, created by Yuji Horii. It would go to become one of the company's first PC releases.
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