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Yuichi Toyama
is a Japanese video game designer, director, and producer. He used to work at Technosoft, Compile and Eighting, and is currently working at Taito since 2017. He is also a writer for the Game Culture Preservation Institute(IGCC). Early years Toyama started his path in the video game industry after his enjoyment of playing Space Invaders. He had read magazines that featured games like Space Invaders, Star Wars, and Gundam. He always wanted to enjoy those games at home. He originally wanted to either get a Sharp MZ-80 or an NEC PC-8001, but in the end, he started with a Hitachi Basic Master Level 2. After testing the games on it, he had no choice but to do game programming on his own. Career Technosoft (1987-1989) Toyama started at Technosoft when he was a teenager. He started with being a designer for the game, Feedback, then later a planner and programmer for Herzog Compile (1989-1992) Eighting (1994-2017) Taito (2017-present) Works References External links (Japanese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Technosoft
was a Japanese video game developer and publisher based headquartered in Sasebo, Nagasaki. Also known as "Tecno Soft", the company was founded in February 1980 as Sasebo Microcomputer Center, before changing its name to Technosoft in 1982. The company primarily dealt with software for Japanese personal computers, including graphic toolsets and image processing software. Technosoft's first venture into the video game market was ''Snake & Snake'', released in 1982, before seeing success with titles such as ''Thunder Force (video game), Thunder Force'' (1983) and ''Plasma Line'' (1984). Technosoft became largely profitable during the late-1980s and early-1990s, largely in part due to the widespread popularity of their ''Thunder Force'' and ''Herzog'' franchises. However, later in the decade, Technosoft began to largely diminish as profits began to slump, before ultimately being acquired and folded into Japanese pachinko manufacturer Twenty-One Company in late 2001. Twenty-One began ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sorcer Striker
''Sorcer Striker'' is a 1993 in video gaming, 1993 Shoot 'em up#Types, vertically scrolling shooter arcade game originally developed by Raizing (now known as Eighting) and published by Able Corporation in Japan and Europe. In the game, players assume the role from one of the four bounty hunters to overthrow the Goblin empire led by King Gobligan and reclaim the bounty placed by King Codwenna of Violent Kingdom over Gobligan's head. It is the first entry in the ''Mahō Daisakusen'' trilogy, which includes ''Kingdom Grand Prix'' and ''Dimahoo'', and the first video game to be created by Raizing. ''Sorcer Striker'' served as the debut project of Raizing, a development company founded by former Naxat Soft and Compile (company), Compile staff who previously worked on the ''Aleste'' series. Though first released in arcades, the game was later Porting#Porting in gaming, ported to other Video game#Platforms, platforms, each one featuring various changes compared to the original version a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dragon Knight
Dragon Knight or The Dragon Knight may refer to: * ''Dragon Knight'' (novel series), a series of fantasy novels by Gordon R. Dickson which began in 1976. ** ''The Dragon Knight'' (Dickson novel), the second novel in the ''Dragon Knight'' series, released in 1990 * ''Dragon Knight'' (video game series), a series of hentai games by ELF, and (mostly hentai) anime based on those games *# ''Dragon Knight'' (video game), a 1989 video game *# ''Dragon Knight II'', an MSX game released December 1990 *# ''Dragon Knight III'' or ''Knights of Xentar ''Knights of Xentar'' is an erotic role-playing video game published for MS-DOS compatible operating systems in North America by Megatech Software in 1995. It was originally published as ''Dragon Knight III'' (ドラゴンナイトIII) in Japa ...'', a 1991 multi-platform game *# ''Dragon Knight 4'', a 1994 game * ''List of Dragonlance modules and sourcebooks#DLA2: Dragon Knight, Dragon Knight'', a 1990 adventure scenario published for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |