Yuji Horii
| Yuji Horii | |
|---|---|
| Born |
堀井 雄二 January 6, 1954 Sumoto, Hyōgo, Japan |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Other names | Yuuji Horii |
| Education | Graduated from Waseda University |
| Occupation | Video game designer, writer, author |
| Known for | Creator of Dragon Quest series |
| Notable work | Dragon Quest series |
Yuji Horii (堀井 雄二 Horii Yūji?) (also written as Yuuji Horii) (born January 6, 1954 in Awaji Island, Japan) is a Japanese video game designer and scenario writer best known as the creator of the seminal Dragon Quest series of role-playing games, supervising and writing the scenario for Chrono Trigger, as well as the first visual novel adventure game Portopia Serial Murder Case.
Horii graduated from Waseda University's Department of Literature. He also worked as a freelance writer for newspapers, comics, and magazines, including the Famicom Shinken video games column that ran in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1985 to 1988. He then entered in an Enix-sponsored game programming contest, where he placed with Love Match Tennis, a tennis video game, motivating him to become a video game designer. Horii then created Portopia Serial Murder Case, a game that later inspired Hideo Kojima (of Metal Gear fame) to enter the video game industry. It is the first part of the Yuuji Horii Mysteries trilogy, along with its successors (1984) and Karuizawa Yūkai Annai (1985).
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