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Koichi Nakamura

Founder of Chunsoft. Door Door and Dragon Quest

In their own words (3)

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According to Koichi Nakamura, about 10 bytes of capacity were left over in the end, so a bit of play was put in that lights the LED lamps on the development board of the time in turn.

Dragon Warrior II / Source: Wikipedia, "Dragon Quest II: Luminaries of the Legendary Line"

Koichi Nakamura has said that the sound novel direction came about because the team was working on Dragon Quest V at the time and had few staff free for programming and graphics. The idea was to keep the effort on those low while making use of what the Super Famicom could do.

Otogirisō / Source: Wikipedia, "Otogirisou"

The producer Koichi Nakamura has said of this game that "we put into Shiren what we could not fit into Torneko", giving the pot system as one example.

Fushigi no Dungeon 2: Furai no Shiren / Source: Wikipedia, "Mystery Dungeon 2: Shiren the Wanderer"

Famicom titles (6)

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Famicom Jump II: Saikyō no Shichinin

director / Source

Super Famicom titles (6)

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Otogirisō

producer / Source

Dragon Quest V

Supervisor /Source

Torneko's Great Adventure

producer / Source

Dragon Quest III

director / Source

Banshee's Last Cry

producer / Source

Fushigi no Dungeon 2: Furai no Shiren

producer / Source

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