Hironobu Sakaguchi (Nintendo Power)

Recently I read an issue of Nintendo Power in which there was an interesting article about Hironobu Sakaguchi, the creator of Final Fantasy (a famous RPG series.) Throughout the article he discusses the beginnings of Square for him and the beginning of Final Fantasy. Approximetly twenty-five years ago, Hironobu bought an Apple II and began creating software. Eventually he applied to Square, which at the time, only had five members before he joined, very tiny compared to the huge company that it is today. The first Final Fantasy game only had 8 people working on it and, unbwknownst to them, would become the first in a huge series (soon to be thirteen games.) At that point Squaresoft and Enix were big competitors, with Squaresoft having Final Fantasy and Enix having Dragon Quest, but eventually the two merged into what is now Square-Enix. Overall, Hironobu is a very famous and accomplished video game designer who is also an insperation to aspiring developers today.