Yuuji Horii
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Yuuji Horii (堀井雄二 Horii Yūji, born January 6, 1954) is a Japanese video game designer.
Yuuji Horii graduated from Waseda University's Department of Literature. He also worked as a freelance writer for magazines, newspapers, and comics. He won the top prize at the Enix-sponsored "Game Programming Contest" that gave him the motivation to become a video game designer. His video game works include the Dragon Quest, Portpia Renzoku Satsujin Jiken, and Itadaki Street series.
Mr. Horii was also a supervisor of the Super Famicom/Super Nintendo game, Chrono Trigger. Chrono Trigger had multiple game endings and Yuuji Horii appeared in one of the endings with the game development staff.
Yuuji Horii currently heads his own production company, Armor Project. He is now working on Dragon Quest Swords, a new title in the series for Nintendo's Wii console.
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