History
The game was influenced by Starglider and Starglider 2 and was originally slated to be published by Mindscape as Eclipse or Lunar Chase, but Nintendo took over the project after becoming interested in the concept of having three-dimensional graphics on the Game Boy. Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi renamed the game X shortly before its release. The Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu listed X as one of the four most influential Game Boy games ever created, as it was the first 3D game released for a portable system in Japan.
The chief programmer and designer, Dylan Cuthbert, now runs Q-Games, a small games developer in Kyoto, Japan. The director of the project on the Nintendo side was Yoshio Sakamoto, who also started the Metroid series.
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