Nasir Gebelli

Nasir Gebelli (Persian: ناصر جبلی, also Nasser Gebelli, born 1957) is an Iranian-American programmer and video game designer usually credited in his games as simply Nasir. He became known in the early 1980s for programming action games for Apple II,^[1] such as Space Eggs (a clone of Moon Cresta). These were initially published by Sirius Software, then he started his own company, Gebelli Software.^[2] Several of the games he wrote for Gebelli Software were 3D space combat simulators for the Apple II.

From the late 1980s to the early 1990s, Nasir developed home console games for Squaresoft. He programmed the first three Final Fantasy games,^[3] the Famicom 3D System title Rad Racer, 3-D WorldRunner, and Secret of Mana.