Kenji Eno

Quick Facts

Full Name	Kenji Eno
Occupation	Game Designer
Date Of Birth	May 5, 1970(1970-05-05)
Age	54
Date Of Death	February 20, 2013, Tokyo, Japan
Birthplace	Japan
Country	Japan
Horoscope	Taurus

Kenji Eno Biography

Kenji Eno is one of the most popular and richest Game Designer who was born on May 5, 1970 in Japan, Japan. Pioneering late video game designer who created unique games like “Enemy Zero” and the “D” series before dying of heart failure at just 42. He was also a highly-respected electronic music producer who created the scores for many of his own games.

He and Hironobu Sakaguchi are both highly-respected Japanese video game designers.

Uncommonly interested in video games and music from a young age, Eno had experimented extensively with programming and recording, and one of his first games, Towadoko Murder Case, placed in a regional game contest. Eno’s first job in the industry was with the nascent video game company, Interlink (responsible for the small 1989 hit, Moulin Rouge War Chronicle: Blaze of Melville (Moulin Rouge Senki: Melville no Honoo) ). With Interlink, Eno was given a small degree of control in his projects and the company soon released a game in the Ultra Series under his co-planning.

In 1994, after having his interest in games revitalized by trips to Macworld 1994 and Be-In, a local video game expo, Eno formed Warp with a small team of programmers and designers including animators Fumito Ueda (Ico and Shadow of the Colossus), Takeshi Nozue (Final Fantasy VII Advent Children) and Ichiro Itano (Macross), all of whom later became famous under different employment. While EIM had been modeled after Interlink, Eno modeled Warp after Panasonic’s 3DO department. Warp produced a number of titles for various platforms, however its main output consisted of games designed for the 3DO Interactive Multiplayer. Under Eno’s management, Warp’s games were noted for their outlandishness and unconventional production. The game Short Warp, for example, notably came shipped with condom feelies, and the game Real Sound shipped with a bag of “herb seeds”. Eno took up radio broadcasting during this period. He developed a maverick reputation during his work with Warp, and shocked the Japanese video game press in a dramatic 1996 press conference where he burned bridges with Sony by displaying a video depicting the PlayStation logo morphing into the logo for Sega Saturn to indicate that Warp’s latest game, Enemy Zero, would be a Saturn exclusive. Furthering this reputation, at the 1996 Tokyo Game Show Warp displayed a video of themselves dancing and singing a song with lyrics roughly translated as “Enemy Zero is a good game, Warp is a good company”, at the end of which Eno threw to the floor a plush doll of Muumuu, the mascot of Sony’s hit game Jumping Flash!. Warp’s last four titles were designed exclusively for Sega. Due in part to the failure of the 3DO Interactive Multiplayer as a video game console, in part to Eno’s growing episodes of mental instability, and dogged by mediocre sales figures for their non-3DO games, Warp disbanded shortly after the release of D2 in 2000.

He was married to a woman named Yuka.

Kenji Eno Net Worth

Kenji Eno is one of the richest Game Designer from Japan. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Kenji Eno 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He got his start in the gaming industry with the small company Interlink.

He became famous for his unusual marketing campaigns as the head of WARP, Inc., including items like herb seeds with the purchase of games.

Kenji Eno (飯野賢治 , Iino Kenji, May 5, 1970 – February 20, 2013) was a Japanese musician and video game designer. He gained a reputation as a maverick during the mid-1990s for creating unorthodox games like Real Sound and is perhaps best remembered today for his rebellious marketing techniques. Outside of his native home land he was best known for his survival horror video games, the D series. Apart from creating video games, Eno was also a well-regarded electronic musician and he created the scores for several of his games. During his life, Eno founded the video game development companies: EIM and From Yellow to Orange (previously called Warp and Super Warp). He also worked in a variety of fields apart from video games and music including the automotive, cellphone, tobacco, and hotel industries. Eno died on February 20, 2013, due to heart failure brought on by hypertension.

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Eno died on February 20, 2013, due to heart failure brought on by hypertension. He was 42.

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Kenji Ranked on the list of most popular Game Designer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Japan. Kenji Eno celebrates birthday on May 5 of every year.