With Puyo Puyo‘s release in 1991, Masamitsu Itani became one of the most successful game company presidents in Japan. Then everything went bust. But just as Itani lost everything, he didn’t lose his will to keep making games.
According to AOL News Japan, Itani said he wanted to make a game that sold. While Kazunari Yonemitsu, an employee at Itani’s company Compile, reportedly created Puyo Puyo, the game made him and his company very wealthy. Compile swelled to over 400 employees. It cranked out other games, but its only big hits were new Puyo Puyo games.
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Thanks to its fun game play and cute character, Puyo Puyo was so big that Itani was planning on opening a Disney-style Puyo Puyo Land theme park…
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