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Enix was the older of the two merging companies, and it found success earlier. Founded in 1975 as the Eidansha Boshu Service Center, it changed its name to Enix in 1982, just before it entered the video game market. Enix's early games (which included some [[Eroge]]) were released principally on the Japanese [[PC 88|NEC PC-8801]] and Fujitsu FM-7 computers. Though games such as ''The PORTOPIA Serial Murder Case'' were quite popular in Japan, ''[[Dragon Quest I (Video Game)|Dragon Quest I]]'' was Enix's first game to be released internationally, albeit under the [[Market
Square's early years were leaner; they began as a division of the software company Denyusha. In 1984 they released their first game, ''The Death Trap'', whose modest success led them to create a few more original games, as well as technically unimpressive ports of ''[[Dragon Slayer (Video Game)|Dragon Slayer]]'' for the [[MSX]] and ''[[Thexder]]'' for the NES. After Square Co., Ltd. became independent in 1986, they started putting out a variety of forgettable games for the Famicom Disk System, and were not doing too well when, a year and a half after ''Dragon Quest'', they released an [[RPG]] called ''[[Final Fantasy I (Video Game)|Final Fantasy I]]''...
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* [[Impossibly Cool Clothes]]: Many games, especially the ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' series, feature amazing outfits that would give a [[Cosplay|Cosplayer]] a run for his money.
* [[Japanese RPG]]: The company's main genre. Whichever division of JRPG they use varies from series to series.
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* [[No Export for You]]: An infamous case.
* [[Rivals Team Up]]: The merger.
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