   was a japanese video game company founded in september 1986 by masashi miyamoto. it merged with enix in 2003 and became part of square enix. the company sometimes used squaresoft as a brand name to refer to their games, and the term is occasionally used to refer to the company itself. in addition, "squaresoft, inc" was the name of the company's american arm before the merger, after which it was renamed to "square enix, inc". ==history== square was founded in yokohama in september 1986 by masashi miyamoto after he graduated from waseda, one of japan's top universities. back then, square was a computer game software division of den-yu-sha, a power line construction company owned by miyamoto's father. while at the time game development was usually conducted by only one programmer, miyamoto believed that it would be more efficient to have graphic designers, programmers and professional story writers working together on common projects. square's first two titles were the death trap and its sequel will: the death trap ii, both designed by part-time employee hironobu sakaguchi and released on the nec pc-8801. despite an initial reluctance to develop for video gam
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