Enix Corporation
Moby ID: 2024
- Eidansha Boshu Service Center - Original company name
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Enix was founded in 1982 by Yasuhiro Fukushima as a subsidiary of Eidansha Boshu Service Center.
Enix itself was only a publisher, it never had any of its games developed in-house, and Yasuhiro Fukushima has no programming or designing experience. In its beginnings, it sponsored a national programming contest in Japan. This brought out 300 different programmers, two notable programmers were Koichi Nakamura and Yuji Horii . Koichi Nakamura won the contest with the game called Door Door , and Enix published the game. Koichi Nakamura and Yuji Horii then started working together by founding Chunsoft . This company is best known for developing the Dragon Quest series of games that Enix is best known for publishing.
Enix has also been known for publishing various games by Quintet and tri-Ace .
Today, Enix is defunct. In 2002, Enix merged with its former rival Square Co. Ltd. to form Square Enix Co. Ltd . Yasuhiro Fukushima is the chairman of this company.
Credited on 116 Games from 1983 to 2003
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- April 2003
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Company merges with Square Co., Ltd. to form Square Enix Co., Ltd.
- November 1999
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ENIX AMERICA INC. is established as a wholly owned subsidiary of ENIX CORPORATION.
- October 1991
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Digital Entertainment Academy Co., Ltd. is established as a partially owned subsidiary.
- April 1989
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ENIX CORPORATION, KONIKA ENIX, and Enix Products merge into Eidansha Boshu Service Center, which is subsequently renamed ENIX CORPORATION.
- May 1986
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Dragon Quest is released for the Nintendo Famicom in Japan.
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Their official web site used to be at http://www.enix.co.jp/
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Frequent Collaborators
Companies- 12 games with Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.
- 7 games with Quintet Co., Ltd.
- 5 games with Tose Co., Ltd.
- 5 games with tri-Ace Inc.
- 4 games with Armor Project
- 4 games with Givro
- 4 games with Random House Co., Ltd.
- 4 games with Produce Co., Ltd.
- 4 games with Heart Beat
- 4 games with Shueisha Inc.
- 59 games with Kenjiro Kano
- 56 games with Yukinobu Chida
- 53 games with Keiji Honda
- 48 games with Yasuhiro Fukushima
- 44 games with Yuuchi Kikumoto
- 42 games with Naoki Oishi
- 41 games with Hideki Yamamoto
- 39 games with Shinji Futami
- 36 games with Noriko Nakanome
- 35 games with Yoshinori Yamagishi
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