Yuji Horii
By the mid-1980s, Otomo's work had become influential in Japan. His early manga work notably influenced a number of Japanese video game designers by the mid-1980s, including Enix's Yuji Horii ("The Portopia Serial Murder Case" and "Dragon Quest"), Capcom's Noritaka Funamizu ("Gun.Smoke" and "Hyper Dyne Side Arms"), UPL's Tsutomu Fujisawa ("Ninja-Kid"), Thinking Rabbit's Hiroyuki Imabayashi ("Sokoban"), dB-SOFT's Naoto Shinada ("Volguard"), Hot-B's Jun Kuriyama ("Psychic City"), and Microcabin's Masashi Katou ("Eiyuu Densetsu Saga").