GameCenter CX

Season 13

Episode 6: Yuji Horii Interview Special (not a game)

Last time, Arino played through a classic adventure game from Yuji Horii, but in the middle of the show, Horii actually showed up, and then the two men went off for a bit to have an interview in the Game Center CX storage room. This episode is entirely that interview. Horii’s game career began in 1983, but before that, he was kicking around as a freelance writer. But his love of games led him to enter an Enix game design contest in 1982, the same contest that Koichi Nakamura, another part of the Dragon Quest team, would enter. Horii’s entry was a game called Love Match Tennis. Both his and Nakamura’s games ended up published, and from there, Horii was in it to win it.