Square Tops Gaming Polls
kula shakerz    2002-10-06, 00:00 am.

Media Works, a japanese polling company held a survey to find out what game and game company was held in highest esteem by students who have aspirations of joining the gaming industry in the future. 300 students were polled and asked to name their favorite game series, designer and company. Square sits pretty atop all 3 categories. The poll was conducted using a point-scale system - a first place vote gives the most points.

GAMES:

1. Final Fantasy (399) - Square 2. Dragon Quest (102) - Enix 3. Biohazard/Resident Evil (63) - Capcom 4. Super Mario (59) - Nintendo 5. Phantasy Star Online (43) - Sega 6. Shin Megami Tensei (42) - Atlus 7. Street Fighter (42) - Capcom 8. Sangoku Musou (41) - Koei 9. Genso Suikoden (40) - Konami 10. Metal Gear (36) - Konami 11. Zelda (36) - Nintendo 12. Virtua Fighter (33) - Sega 13. Tactics Ogre (31) - Quest 14. Xenogears (30) - Square 15. Super Robot Wars (29) - Banpresto

DESIGNER:

  1. Hironobu Sakaguchi (205) - Producer of Final Fantasy (Square)
  2. Shigeru Miyamoto (145) - Producer of Mario, Zelda (Nintendo)
  3. Yuji Naka (99) - Producer of Sonic, Phantasy Star (Sega)
  4. Tetsuya Nomura (89) - Producer of Kingdom Hearts, artist for Square
  5. Yuji Horii (83) - Producer of Dragon Quest (Enix)
  6. Kazuma Kaneko (63) - Artist for Shin Megami Tensei (Atlus)
  7. Hideo Kojima (54) - Producer of Metal Gear (Konami)
  8. Yu Suzuki (53) - Producer of Virtua Fighter (Sega)
  9. Shinji Mikami (41) - Producer of Biohazard/Resident Evil (Capcom) 10. Nobuo Uematsu (40) - Music composer for Final Fantasy (Square) 11. Yoshitaka Amano (40) - Artist for Final Fantasy (Square)
  10. Koichi Nakamura (36) - Producer of Fushigi no Dungeon (ChunSoft)
  11. Kou Shibusawa (33) - Producer of Nobunaga's Ambition (Koei)
  12. Hirou Ouji (30) - Producer of Sakura Taisen (Sega)
  13. Yoshiki Okamoto (23) - Producer of Street Fighter (Capcom)

COMPANY:

1. Square (322) 2. Sega (198) 3. Capcom (180) 4. Namco (121) 5. Koei (99) 6. Sony Computer Entertainment (81) 7. Konami (78) 8. Nintendo (74) 9. Banpresto (47) 10. From Software (41) 11. Tri-Ace (40) 12. Atlus (37) 13. ChunSoft (34) 14. Enix (31) 15. Quest (28)




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