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{{nihongo|'''Yūji Horii'''|堀井 雄二|''Horii Yūji''}} (born January 6, 1954 in Awaji Island, Japan) is a Japanese video game designer and scenario writer best known as the creator of the Dragon Quest series. He has been said to have created the blueprint for the console role-playing game by Nintendo Power. | |||
==Biography== | |||
Horii graduated from Waseda University's Department of Literature. He also worked as a freelance writer for magazines, newspapers, and comics. He placed in an Enix-sponsored game programming contest with a tennis computer game, motivating him to become a video game designer. | |||
Horii currently heads his own production 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 Co.|Square]]. He is currently working on Dragon Quest IX for the Nintendo DS, the first game in the main series released primarily for a handheld. | |||
==[[Chrono (Series)]]== | |||
Horii was a supervisor for the original version of {{CT}}. Many of the game developers appear in a [[List of Chrono Trigger endings|special ending]] of ''Chrono Trigger''. Each one is outfitted with their own dialogue, location, and sprite. | |||
==Gallery== | |||
<center><gallery widths="120"> | |||
File:Yuji_Horii.gif|Yūji Horii's sprite in the Developer's Ending of {{CT}}. | |||
</gallery></center> | |||
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