Enix
 |
|
|
Native name
|
株式会社エニックス |
|---|---|
|
Romanized name
|
Kabushikigaisha Enikkusu |
| Kabushiki gaisha | |
| Industry | |
| Fate | Merged with Square |
| Successor | Square Enix |
| Founded | September 22, 1975 |
| Headquarters | Tokyo, Japan |
|
Key people
|
|
| Products |
|
| Subsidiaries | See subsidiaries |
| Website | www |
Enix Corporation (株式会社エニックス Kabushiki-gaisha Enikkusu?) 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 (株式会社営団社募集サービスセンター Kabushiki Gaisha Eidansha Boshū Sābisu Sentā?) 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 best known for publishing the Dragon Quest series of role-playing video games. The company merged with Square in 2003 to become Square Enix. As a result of the merger, Square Co., Ltd. was dissolved and Enix was the surviving company.
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. Another winner was the puzzle game Door Door by Koichi Nakamura, which would become one of the company's better known home computer titles. The game was subsequently ported to the Nintendo Family Computer, but never saw any form of release outside Japan. Nakamura would stay on board as one Enix's key programmers.
...
Wikipedia