Editing Hiroyuki Takahashi

{{ja|'''Hiroyuki Takahashi'''|高橋 宏之||born 1957}} is an assistant producer in {{Famicom}} {{DQ4}}. He is later famous for developing role-playing game ''Shining Force'' and ''Golden Sun'' series, along with ''Mario Golf'' and ''Tennis'' games.

==Career==
He is a former employee of [[Enix]] who in charge of real estate business, and worked on {{Dragon Quest IV}} (1990) as an assistant producer.

In the same year, he and Kan Naitō, two former ''Dragon Quest'' staff, left Enix and found Climax Entertainment, which developed dungeon crawler ''Shining in the Darkness'' (1991). Later, he created Sonic! (later Camelot) and developed strategy role-playing game trilogy ''Shining Force'' for Sega. Camelot was affiliated with [[Nintendo]] in the 21st century, and developed role-playing game series ''Golden Sun'' (2001–2010), along with a dozen of ''Mario'' sport games.

There are many traces of ''Dragon Quest'' in Takahashi's RPGs: featuring silent protagonists; saving and exorcising in [[church]]s; lost half of the gold after annihilated.

==Works==
'''''Dragon Quest'' title'''
* {{Dragon Quest IV}} (Famicom, 1990) — assistant producer

'''Other role-playing games'''
* ''Shining'' series (1991–1998) for Sega
** ''Shining in the Darkness''
** ''Shining Force'' series
* ''Golden Sun'' series (2001–2010) for Nintendo

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