Final Fantasy Father Hironobu Sakaguchi Celebrates 50th Birthday

The man who created the iconic RPG series Final Fantasy, Hironobu Sakaguchi, celebrated his 50th birthday this month.

Sakaguchi-sama is a renowned game designer who gave birth to the series after dropping out of University, penning the name "Final Fantasy" as if the game had failed, he would have returned to student life.

Fortunately for Sakaguchi, the project has become the most successful RPG series and Square Enix's best selling video game franchises of all time.

From then on, came more design and director projects with many more Final Fantasy titles, Chrono Trigger, Romancing SaGA 2, Xenogears, Legend of Mana and much more as Executive producer or supervisor.

In 2004 Sakaguchi left Square, who had now merged with rival studio Enix, to form his own Mistwalker. Initial projects included Blue Dragon, Lost Odyssey for the Xbox 360 and ASH on the DS. More recently he returned to the Nintendo home console scene with the critically acclaimed The Last Story - the first time Sakaguchi directed a game since Final Fantasy V.

Without his efforts and more than twenty five years of work in the video game industry it's very much likely we would be devoid of story intense, Japanese RPGs.

Wishing Hironobu Sakaguchi a belated Happy 50th Birthday from Cubed3.