Editing Square (video game company) (section)

===Origins===
Square was initially established in September 1983 as a software subsidiary of Den-Yu-Sha, an [[Electric power industry|electric power conglomerate]] led by Kuniichi Miyamoto.<ref name="Foundation"/><ref name="history"/> His son [[Masafumi Miyamoto]], then a part-time employee of the Science and Technology Department at [[Keio University]], had little interest in following his father into the electricity business.<ref name="history"/><ref name="EdgeSakaguchi"/> Miyamoto instead became a software developer at the [[Yokohama]] branch of Den-Yu-Sha in [[Hiyoshi]], with a focus on the emerging video game market.<ref name="history"/><ref name="paper"/> Their original offices were based in a former hairdresser's salon.<ref name="EdgeSakaguchi"/> The company's name referred to a golfing term, and represented its aim to face challenges head-on. It also referenced a [[town square]], emphasizing a production environment based on cooperation.<ref name="SquareName"/>

At the time, video games in Japan were usually created by a single programmer. Miyamoto, on the other hand, believed that graphic designers, programmers, and professional story writers would be needed to keep up with advances in computing and video game development.<ref name="paper"/> During these early years, the group was compared to a [[family business]]; one of the early hires, Shinichiro Kajitani, joined because he was a friend of Miyamoto, and later compared the company at that time to a "college club".<ref name="PolygonRetro"/> To recruit for this new organizational structure, Miyamoto organized a [[Salon (gathering)|salon]] in Yokohama and offered jobs to those who demonstrated exceptional programming skills.<ref name="history"/> This led to the part-time hiring of university students [[Hironobu Sakaguchi]] and [[Hiromichi Tanaka]], as well as Hisashi Suzuki, who would go on to become Square's CEO.<ref name="history"/><ref name="EdgeSakaguchi"/> Miyamoto's initial plan was to recruit from Keio University, but this never materialized.<ref name="EdgeSakaguchi"/>