Naka went on to co-create the Sonic the Hedgehog series and Kawaguchi would later compose music for popular Sega arcade games.

[2][3] The player controls a young girl named Papri as she collects flowers to win the affection of a boy.

[2] Girl's Garden was the first game developed for Sega by programmers Yuji Naka and Hiroshi Kawaguchi.

[6][7] After Naka joined Sega in April 1984, he was asked by his supervisor to try developing games for girls as part of his initial month of training.

[6] Naka collaborated with Kawaguchi, another new programmer to Sega,[8] and showed their progress on Girl's Garden to their supervisor after about two months.

[9] In a 2002 interview, Naka argued that the game's development and manufacturing time meant it could not have possibly been released in 1984.