The Enix Corporation (株式会社エニックス, Kabushiki-gaisha Enikkusu) was a Japanese company that produced video games, Anime and manga. The company was founded by Yasuhiro Fukushima on September 22, 1975 as Eidansha Boshu Service Center (株式会社営団社募集サービスセンター, Kabushiki Gaisha Eidansha Boshū Sābisu Sentā) and renamed Enix in 1982. The name is a play on the words "Phoenix", a mythical bird that is reborn from its own ashes, and "ENIAC", the world's first digit...
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The Enix Corporation (株式会社エニックス, Kabushiki-gaisha Enikkusu) was a Japanese company that produced video games, Anime and manga. The company was founded by Yasuhiro Fukushima on September 22, 1975 as Eidansha Boshu Service Center (株式会社営団社募集サービスセンター, Kabushiki Gaisha Eidansha Boshū Sābisu Sentā) and renamed Enix in 1982. The name is a play on the words "Phoenix", a mythical bird that is reborn from its own ashes, and "ENIAC", the world's first digital computer.
Enix is perhaps best known for publishing the Dragon Quest series of console role-playing games. The company merged with Square Co. in 2003 to become Square Enix.
Enix began its foray into the gaming market in 1982 by holding a personal computer game programming contest. One of the winners was Love Match Tennis, created by Yuuji Horii. It would go to become one of the company's first PC releases. Another winner was the puzzle game Door Door by Koichi Nakamura, which would become one of the company's better known home computer...
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