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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yuji Horii has received more than 434,284 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Yuji Horii is the 41st most popular game designer (down from 31st in 2019), the 1,586th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,445th in 2019) and the 19th most popular Japanese Game Designer.

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  • 430k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 43.59

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.79

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.40

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among GAME DESIGNERS

Among game designers, Yuji Horii ranks 41 out of 77. Before him are Ed Boon, Ron Gilbert, Yuji Naka, David Cage, Tetsuya Nomura, and Roberta Williams. After him are Todd Howard, Jordan Mechner, Tim Schafer, Yoshinori Kitase, Chris Taylor, and Koji Igarashi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Yuji Horii ranks 499. Before him are Patricia Belcher, Clem Burke, Aed Carabao, Mihai Stoichiță, Omar Ibrahim Ghalawanji, and Reiner Haseloff. After him are Daina Taimiņa, Muammar Z.A., Alejandro Casañas, Bruce Hornsby, Wim Crusio, and Stephen Furst.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yuji Horii ranks 1,586 out of 6,245. Before him are Seishi Kishimoto (1974), Akitsugu Konno (1944), Mamoru Miyano (1983), Hisashi Kaneko (1959), Katsuyuki Konishi (1973), and Eijun Kiyokumo (1950). After him are Midori (1971), Akiho Yoshizawa (1984), Toshio Masuda (1959), Yusaku Maezawa (1975), Takeru Satoh (1989), and Tomohisa Yamashita (1985).

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Among GAME DESIGNERS In Japan

Among game designers born in Japan, Yuji Horii ranks 19. Before him are Kazunori Yamauchi (1967), Eiji Aonuma (1963), Masahiro Sakurai (1970), Hideki Kamiya (1970), Yuji Naka (1965), and Tetsuya Nomura (1970). After him are Yoshinori Kitase (1966), Koji Igarashi (1968), Yoko Taro (1970), Naoto Ohshima (1964), Goichi Suda (1968), and Yoshiaki Koizumi (1968).

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