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Yuji Horii

1954 - Today

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Yuji Horii (堀井 雄二, Horii Yūji, born January 6, 1954) is a Japanese video game designer and writer 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yuji Horii has received more than 328,459 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Yuji Horii is the 31st most popular game designer (up from 35th in 2019), the 1,448th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,370th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Japanese Game Designer.

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  • 330k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 42.04

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.58

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.39

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among GAME DESIGNERS

Among game designers, Yuji Horii ranks 31 out of 56. Before him are Hidetaka Miyazaki, John Romero, Yu Suzuki, Eiji Aonuma, Tetsuya Nomura, and Dave Arneson. After him are Yuji Naka, Hideki Kamiya, Ron Gilbert, Roberta Williams, Scott Cawthon, and Ed Boon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Yuji Horii ranks 449. Before him are Mike Kelley, Verner Lička, V. K. Sasikala, Herbert Zimmermann, Louisa Hanoune, and Adam Ant. After him are Barry Shabaka Henley, Anatoly Chukanov, Dominique Bathenay, Wolfgang Schmidt, Rüdiger Schnuphase, and Patricia Belcher.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yuji Horii ranks 1,448 out of 6,048. Before him are Yuichi Nishimura (1972), Kyoko Kuroda (1969), Koji Tanaka (1955), Kenichi Suzumura (1974), Takao Kawaguchi (1950), and Masaru Uchiyama (1957). After him are Fumito Ueda (1970), Yoshitsugu Matsuoka (1986), Tomio Okamura (1972), Nobuo Fujishima (1950), Sana (1996), and Okuro Oikawa (1896).

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Among GAME DESIGNERS In Japan

Among game designers born in Japan, Yuji Horii ranks 16. Before him are Hironobu Sakaguchi (1962), Masahiro Sakurai (1970), Hidetaka Miyazaki (1974), Yu Suzuki (1958), Eiji Aonuma (1963), and Tetsuya Nomura (1970). After him are Yuji Naka (1965), Hideki Kamiya (1970), Kazunori Yamauchi (1967), Naoto Ohshima (1964), Yoshinori Kitase (1966), and Koji Igarashi (1968).

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