producer
Masafumi Miyamoto
宮本雅史
About
Masafumi Miyamoto (born 1957) founded the video game company Square. He graduated from Waseda University in 1983 and began making computer games in the software division of Den-Yu-Sha, a power-line construction company owned by his father. He built that division into Square — established in 1983 and spun off as an independent company in 1986 — around a then-radical belief: that video games, which in Japan were usually written by a single programmer working alone, should instead be made by teams of graphic designers, programmers, and professional writers together. That belief drew the people who would prove him right — among them Hironobu Sakaguchi, Hiromichi Tanaka, Koichi Ishii, artist Kazuko Shibuya, programmer Nasir Gebelli, and composer Nobuo Uematsu — and he was credited as producer on the first Final Fantasy and as executive producer on many that followed. He was president of Square until 1991, then stepped down while remaining a major shareholder through the company's 2003 merger with Enix.
Timeline & Works
Career milestones and all 2 games in the museum they worked on — in the order they happened.
- 1987
- 1988
Also connected to
- nobuo uematsu 共作（final fantasy） / 共作（hanjuku hero）
- hironobu sakaguchi 共作（final fantasy）
- kazuhiko aoki 共作（hanjuku hero）
- takashi tokita 共作（hanjuku hero）
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