Space Harrier
Hideki Kamiya, the director of PlatinumGames and creator of the "Devil May Cry" series, cited "Space Harrier" as an inspiration for his entering the video game industry in a 2014 interview: "There were so many trend-setting definitive games that came out [in the 1980s], like "Gradius" and "Space Harrier". All these game creators were trying to make original, really creative games that had never existed before".