Information: - The , referred to as GBC, is a handheld game console manufactured by Nintendo, which was released on October 21, 1998 in Japan and was released in November of the same year in international markets. It is the successor of the Game Boy. - History. Horii graduated from Waseda University's Department of Literature. He also worked as a freelance writer for newspapers, comics, and magazines, including the "Famicom Shinken" video games column that ran in "Weekly Shnen Jump" from 1985 to 1988. He then entered in an Enix-sponsored game programming contest, where he placed with "Love Match Tennis", a tennis video game, motivating him to become a video game designer. Horii then created "Portopia Serial Murder Case", a game that later inspired Hideo Kojima (of "Metal Gear" fame) to enter the video game industry. It is the first part of the "Yuuji Horii Mysteries" trilogy, along with its successors "" (1984) and "Karuizawa Ykai Annai" (1985). - Eidos Interactive Ltd. was a British software technology developer and video game publisher, now operating as Square Enix Europe. The company was headquartered in the Wimbledon Bridge House in Wimbledon, London Borough of Merton. The company has had offices all around the world, including the United States, Canada, Germany, France, Australia and Japan. - Dragon Warrior Monsters 2 , known in Japan as Dragon Quest Monsters 2 ( Doragon Kuesuto Monsutzu Ts ) , is a video game published by Enix for the Game Boy Color . It is the second Dragon Warrior Monsters game for the Game Boy Color and features two different versions of the same game , Cobi 's Journey ( released as Dragon Quest Monsters 2 : Ruka 's Journey in Japan ) and Tara 's Adventure ( released as Dragon Quest Monsters 2 : Iru 's Adventure in Japan ) . This was the last Game Boy Color title released in North America that was also compatible with the original Game Boy and enhanced for the Super Game Boy . Instead of traveling through portals like in the previous game , the player attains keys that lead to different worlds . The only differences in the two versions , aside from the main character , is that there are different monsters the player can find in the wild and different keys for each game . The game also introduced the new monster family , Water . Both games were remade in 2002 for the PlayStation in a compilation game called Dragon Quest Monsters 1 +2 ( 1 2 Doragon Kuesuto Monsutzu Wan Ts : Hoshi Furi no Ysha to Bokuj no Nakamatachi , lit. '' Dragon Quest Monsters 1 2 : The Hero From the Stars and the Rancher Friends '' ) and released only in Japan . The Nintendo 3DS version of both games were also remade in 2014 called Dragon Quest Monsters 2 : Iru and Luca 's Marvelous Mysterious Key and released only in Japan . - The is a 16-bit adapter cartridge for Nintendo's Super Nintendo Entertainment System (known as the Super Famicom in Japan). It was the first Game Boy-based add-on to a Nintendo console. The Super Game Boy allows game cartridges designed for use on the Game Boy to be played on a TV display using the Super NES controllers. When it was released in June 1994, the Super Game Boy sold for $59.99 in the United States. In the United Kingdom, it retailed for 49.99. It is the precursor to the Game Boy Player on the Nintendo GameCube, which functions in a similar manner. - Dragon Warrior Monsters, originally released in Japan as , is the first video game in the "Dragon Quest Monsters" series. It was released in Japan by Enix on September 25, 1998, and co-published by Eidos Interactive in Europe in 1999 and in North America in 2000. It was the first "Dragon Quest" game to be released in Europe. It was released for the Game Boy Color before the console itself was released; however, the cartridge is backward compatible with the older Game Boy console in black-and-white color. The game was remade for the PlayStation as . A mobile phone incarnation titled "Dragon Quest Monsters i" was released in Japan on January 28, 2002. - , published as Dragon Warrior in North America until 2005, is a series of internationally best-selling console role-playing video game (RPG) titles created by Yuji Horii and his studio, Armor Project. - , sometimes transliterated Gumpei Yokoi, was a Japanese video game designer. He was a long-time Nintendo employee, best known as creator of the Game & Watch handheld system, inventor of the Control Pad (whose plus-shaped design nearly all video game controllers attempt to mimic today), the original designer of the Game Boy, and producer of a few long-running and critically acclaimed video game franchises, such as "Metroid" and "Kid Icarus". - The is a home video game console released by Nintendo in Japan on September 14, 2001; in North America on November 18, 2001; in Europe on May 3, 2002; and in Australia on May 17, 2002. The sixth-generation console is the successor to the Nintendo 64 and competed with Sony Computer Entertainment's PlayStation 2 and Microsoft's Xbox. - The Game Boy line is a line of handheld game consoles developed, manufactured, and marketed by Nintendo. The product line has sold 200 million units worldwide. - A role-playing video game (commonly referred to as role-playing game or RPG, and in the past was also known as computer role-playing game or CRPG) is a video game genre where the player controls the actions of a character (and/or several party members) immersed in some well-defined world. Many role-playing video games have origins in pen-and-paper role-playing games (Including "Dungeons & Dragons") and use much of the same , settings and game mechanics. Other major similarities with pen-and-paper games include developed story-telling and narrative elements, player character development, complexity, as well as replayability and immersion. The electronic medium removes the necessity for a gamemaster and increases combat resolution speed. RPGs have evolved from simple text-based console-window games into visually rich 3D experiences. Since the 1980s, Role-playing is the most commercially viable video game genre in Japan, and has more market share of any other genre in the japanese gaming industry, although in the 2010s first-person shooters and western iOS and Android games were becoming rapidly and increasingly popular in that country. - The is an 8-bit handheld video game device with interchangeable cartridges developed and manufactured by Nintendo, which was first released in Japan on , in North America on and in Europe on . It is the first handheld console in the Game Boy line and was created by Satoru Okada and Nintendo Research & Development 1. This same team, led by Gunpei Yokoi at the time, is credited with designing the Game & Watch series as well as several popular games for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Redesigned versions were released in 1996 and 1998 in the form of Game Boy Pocket and Game Boy Light (Japan only), respectively. - The original Square Enix Co., Ltd. was formed as the result of a statutory merger between Enix Corporation and Square Co., Ltd. on April 1, 2003, with Enix legally absorbing Square. Each share of Square's common stock was exchanged for 0.85 shares of Enix's common stock. At the time, 80% of Square Enix staff were made up of former Square employees. As part of the merger, former Square president Yoichi Wada was appointed president of the new corporation, while former Enix president Keiji Honda was named its vice president, and the founder of Enix, Yasuhiro Fukushima, the largest shareholder of the combined corporation, became its honorary chairman. As a result of the merger, Square Co., Ltd. was dissolved and Enix was the surviving company. - Satoru Okada ( "Okada Satoru") was the general manager of Nintendo Research & Engineering, the division designing and developing Nintendo handheld game consoles (such as the Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Game Boy Advance SP, and Nintendo DS consoles). He is best known for creating the original Game Boy. He was also assistant producer and director of and contributor to several Nintendo games, notably "Metroid", released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1986. - For the first two US releases, the titles used "Warrior" instead of the original Japanese "Quest". This was due to "Dragon Quest"s North American name being changed due to a trademark conflict with the role-playing game "DragonQuest", which was published by Simulation Publications in the 1980s until the company's bankruptcy in 1982 and purchase by TSR, Inc., which then published it as an alternate line to "Dungeons & Dragons" until 1987. In 2003, Square Enix registered the "Dragon Quest" trademark in the US, making the "Dragon Warrior" name obsolete. - Enix is best known for publishing the "Dragon Quest" series of role-playing video games. The company merged with Square in 2003 to become Square Enix. As a result of the merger, Square Co., Ltd. was dissolved and Enix was the surviving company. - The (DOL-017) is a device made by Nintendo for the Nintendo GameCube which enables Game Boy, Game Boy Color, or Game Boy Advance cartridges (although Super Game Boy enhancements are ignored) to be played on a television. It was the last Game Boy-based add-on to a Nintendo console. It connects via the high speed parallel port at the bottom of the GameCube and requires use of a boot disc to access the hardware. Unlike devices such as Datel's Advance Game Port, the Game Boy Player does not use software emulation, but instead uses physical hardware nearly identical to that of a Game Boy Advance. - Abandoning previous ventures in favor of toys in the 1960s, Nintendo then developed into a video game company in the 1970s, ultimately becoming one of the most influential in the industry and Japan's third most-valuable company with a market value of over $85 billion. From 1992 until 2016, Nintendo was also the majority shareholder of Major League Baseball's Seattle Mariners. - The Super Nintendo Entertainment System (officially abbreviated the Super NES or SNES, and commonly shortened to Super Nintendo) is a 16-bit home video game console developed by Nintendo that was released in 1990 in Japan and South Korea, 1991 in North America, 1992 in Europe and Australasia (Oceania), and 1993 in South America. In Japan, the system is called the , or SFC for short. In South Korea, it is known as the Super Comboy ( "Syupeo Keomboi") and was distributed by Hyundai Electronics. Although each version is essentially the same, several forms of regional lockout prevent the different versions from being compatible with one another. It was released in Brazil on September 2, 1992, by Playtronic. - The Nintendo Entertainment System (commonly abbreviated as NES) is an 8-bit home video game console that was developed and manufactured by Nintendo. The best-selling gaming console of its time, the NES helped revitalize the US video game industry following the video game crash of 1983. With the NES, Nintendo introduced a now-standard business model of licensing third-party developers, authorizing them to produce and distribute titles for Nintendo's platform. After reading the paragraphs above, we are interested in knowing the entity with which 'dragon warrior monsters 2' exhibits the relationship of 'designer'. Find the answer from the choices below. Choices: - hideo kojima - major - nintendo - satoru okada - square enix - yuji horii
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yuji horii