Kenji EnoDeveloper BIO
Kenji Eno entered the game industry at the small development studio
Interlink where he worked in the sound department. The first game he was involved with was the Famicom title
Ultraman Club 2: Kaettekita Ultraman Club (1990) where he was a planner. When the company became too big, he left. In 1989 he had already formed the independent Japanese development studio
EIM Ltd. where he created
SD Hero Soukessen: Taose! Aku no Gundam (1990). He was also the sound director on the Famicom version of
Altered Beast (1990).
After that he worked on an unreleased
Superman game for
Sunsoft. Because the design did not fit the license, it was eventually cancelled and he created the superhero game
Sun Man instead. That one too was never finished, but working prototypes are available online. Released titles from that period are
Time Zone (1991),
Panic Restaurant (1992) and
Casino Kid II (1993 - sound programming and music composition). The market forced him to create games with licensed characters, but he was not convinced of the potential and eventually closed down the studio.
He spent two years doing consulting work. At an event he convinced a president to invest in a new company, which led to the foundation of
Warp Inc.. There, with a small team, he first approached
The 3DO Company and created the following games:
Totsugeki Kikan! Megadasu!! (1994 - also appears to be known as
Totsugeki Karakuri Megadasu!!),
Trip'd (1995),
D (1995),
Oyaji Hunter Mahjong (1995),
Short Warp (1996),
Enemy Zero (1997),
Real Sound: The Wind's Regret (1997) and
D-2 (1999).
Moving on from the 3DO to the PlayStation, because of a dispute over
D with Sony (see trivia item), his company started to make games for the SEGA Saturn.
D-2 was his last game.
Eventually the company was renamed
Superwarp and intended to enter the IT business, but that never took off. From then, Eno worked in web design, ringtones, vending machines, and other technologies until he announced his return in 2006, having started a new development company,
From Yellow To Orange.
Websites
Games CreditedD-2 (1999), SEGA Enterprises Ltd.
Enemy Zero (1996), Warp Inc.
D (1995), Acclaim Entertainment, Inc.
Panic Restaurant (1992), Taito Corporation
Time Zone (1991), Sigma Ent. Inc.
