Yuji Horii (堀井雄二 Horii Yūji, born January 6, 1954) is a Japanese video game designer.
Yuji 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 Yuji Horii appeared in one of the endings with the game development staff.
Yujii Horii recently finished working on the eighth installment of the Dragon Quest and currently heads his own production company, Armor Project.
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