Which video game company, headquartered in Kyoto, continues to produce Mario games for current generation consoles?
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Mario (franchise) The Mario (Japanese: マリオ , Hepburn: Mario ) franchise is a video game franchise published and produced by Nintendo starring the fictional Italian character Mario. The franchise's other forms of media include several television series and a feature film. It was originally created by game designer Shigeru Miyamoto with the arcade "Donkey Kong", released on July 9, 1981. The games have been developed by a variety of developers including Nintendo, Hudson Soft, and AlphaDream. Most "Mario" games have either been released for the arcade or Nintendo video game consoles and handhelds dating from the Nintendo Entertainment System to the current generation of video game consoles.
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Nintendo Nintendo Co., Ltd. is a Japanese multinational consumer electronics and video game company headquartered in Kyoto. Nintendo is one of the world's largest video game companies by market capitalization, creating some of the best-known and top-selling video game franchises, such as "Mario", "The Legend of Zelda", and "Pokémon". Founded on 23 September 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi, it originally produced handmade hanafuda playing cards. By 1963, the company had tried several small niche businesses, such as cab services and love hotels. Abandoning previous ventures in favor of toys in the 1960s, Nintendo then developed into a video game company in the 1970s, ultimately becoming one of the most influential in the industry and Japan's third most-valuable company with a market value of over $85 billion. From 1992 until 2016, Nintendo was also the majority shareholder of Major League Baseball's Seattle Mariners.
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SuperVillain Studios SuperVillain Studios is an American video game development company that develops for the Wii, Nintendo DS, Xbox, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation Portable.
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D3 Publisher D3 Publisher Inc. (株式会社ディースリー・パブリッシャー , "Kabushiki-gaisha D3 Paburisshā" ) (also known as D3 Go! in North America) is a Japanese video game publisher founded on February 5, 1992. Current CEO and president is Yuji Ito, and It is known for its "Simple" series of low-priced video games. Their games have been released for the Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, Nintendo 3DS, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation Vita, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, GameCube, Wii, Xbox 360 and Wii U. The name stands for "Domain 3" and refers to the three publishing "domains" the company originally intended to enter - video games, music and books - although the company now exclusively publishes video games.
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Mario Paint Mario Paint (Japanese: マリオペイント , Hepburn: Mario Peinto ) is a video game released in 1992 by Nintendo for use with the Super NES. It is packaged with the Super NES Mouse peripheral.
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Retro Studios Retro Studios, Inc. is an American first-party video game developer and division of Nintendo based in Austin, Texas. The studio is best known for its work on the "Metroid Prime" series and the "Donkey Kong Country" series, and has contributed to several other Nintendo game projects, such as "Metroid Prime Hunters" and "Mario Kart 7".
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4K Media Inc. 4K Media Inc. is an American production company currently owned by Konami. It was formerly a subsidiary of 4Kids Entertainment from 1995 to 2012 and its predecessor Leisure Concepts from 1992 to 1995 under the name 4Kids Productions, and was responsible for adapting and producing English language dubs of Japanese anime such as "Pokémon", "Yu-Gi-Oh!", and "Sonic X" among others, as well as producing original live action programs such as "WMAC Masters". In total the company has overseen development and adapatation of over 1700 animated episodes.
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Anchor Inc. Anchor Inc. (アンカー株式会社 "Ankā kabushikigaisha") is a Tokyo-based video game developer and CG production studio specializing in fighting and wrestling video games. The company was established in 1996 by "Tekken" team alumni Masahiro Onoguchi and his brother Kouichi Onoguchi. The company creates original video games and also designs 3D animation for other game titles. and has focused primarily on wrestling and fighting games.
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Agatsuma Entertainment Agatsuma Entertainment (アガツマ・エンタテインメント) was a Japanese video game publishing company established in 1997. It mainly published titles for the Nintendo DS, Wii, and Nintendo 3DS platforms. They also had an agency business, coordinating deals between developers and publishers worldwide. The company dissolved on December 11, 2015 and fully liquidated on March 31, 2016.
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System Sacom System Sacom (システムサコム ) , also known as System Sacom Sales Corp., is a Japanese company which sells electronic devices. They are more notable for their past, in which they developed video games. In the eighties, they mainly published games for computers, but they changed focus to home consoles in the nineties. Its head office is located in Tokyo.
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List of Enix games Enix was a Japanese video game publishing company founded in September 1975 by Yasuhiro Fukushima. Initially a tabloid publisher named Eidansha Boshu Service Center, it was renamed to Enix in 1982, and shortly thereafter ventured into video game publishing for Japanese home computers such as the PC-8800 series, the X1 series, and the FM-7. Enix initially found games to release by holding contests for programming hobbyists and publishing the winners, with the first titles appearing in February 1983. Enix continued to hold contests and publish the winners through 1993. When Enix moved into traditional publishing for video game consoles in 1985, it began with ports of two of its more successful games, "Door Door" (1983) and "The Portopia Serial Murder Case" (1983). From that point onward, Enix served as a publisher for both video games developed independently by other companies as well as for titles in franchises owned by Enix and created by licensed developers. Enix's flagship franchise was the "Dragon Quest" series of console games, developed primarily by Chunsoft; some of the games, such as "Dragon Quest VII" (2000), have sold millions of copies, and the series as a whole has sold over 68 million copies as of 2016.
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Oxygen Games Oxygen Games was a developer and publisher of video gaming entertainment for major console platforms including the Nintendo DS, Wii, PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable, as well as for the PC. The company was incorporated in 2004 and is headquartered in Northamptonshire UK with North American operations based in Twain Harte, California.
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Hacker International Hacker International was a Japanese video game company that developed and published games from 1990 to 2001 for the Nintendo Famicom (including Famicom Disk System), NEC PC Engine (including PC Engine CD), Sony PlayStation (as Map Japan) consoles, and Microsoft Windows PCs. The company was known for its play-for-porn approach to gaming, with such games as "AV Pachi-Slot" ("Hot Slots") and "Soap Panic" ("Bubble Bath Babes") featuring female nudity as a reward for skilful playing. These games were usually distributed through mail order and sold approximately 30,000 to 50,000 copies each. Many of their games were developed by Taiwanese companies and were released in non-pornographic form elsewhere in the world; however three were released in the United States for the Nintendo Entertainment System with pornography intact (albeit sometimes modified to "Westernise" the girls' features) by another Taiwanese company, Panesian.
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Mario Mario (Japanese: マリオ , Hepburn: Mario ) ( ; ] ) is a fictional character in the "Mario" video game franchise, owned by Nintendo and created by Japanese video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto. Serving as the company's mascot and the eponymous protagonist of the series, Mario has appeared in over 200 video games since his creation. Depicted as a short, pudgy, Italian plumber who resides in the Mushroom Kingdom, his adventures generally center upon rescuing Princess Peach from the Koopa villain Bowser. His younger brother and sidekick is Luigi.
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Tose (company) Tose Co., Ltd. (株式会社トーセ , Kabushiki-gaisha Tōse ) () (also called Tose Software) is a video game development company based in Kyoto, Japan. It is mostly known for developing Nintendo's "Game & Watch Gallery" series, various "Dragon Ball" games, as well as other Nintendo products. Tose has developed or co-developed over 1,000 games since the company's inception in 1979, but is virtually never credited in the games themselves (an exception to this is "Game & Watch Gallery 4" and "The Legendary Starfy" series, as Tose shares the copyright with Nintendo). "We're always behind the scenes," said Masa Agarida, Vice President of Tose's U.S. division. "Our policy is not to have a vision. Instead, we follow our customers' visions. Most of the time we refuse to put our name on the games, not even staff names." As such, Tose has gained a reputation for being a "ghost developer".
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Dr. Luigi Dr. Luigi, released in Japan as Dr. Luigi & Saikin Bokumetsu (Dr. LUIGI & 細菌撲滅 , Dr. Luigi & Bacterial Eradication ) , is a puzzle video game for the Wii U console, developed by Nintendo and Arika. The game was released as an eShop exclusive game in North America on December 31, 2013 and in Europe and Japan on January 15, 2014. Notably, Luigi is the protagonist instead of Mario. The game was released at the end of Nintendo's "Year of Luigi" promotion in 2013.
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PlatinumGames PlatinumGames Inc. (プラチナゲームズ株式会社 , Purachina Gēmuzu Kabushiki Gaisha ) is a Japanese video game development company. The company was founded in October 2007, as result of the merger between Seeds Inc. and Odd Inc. The following year, video game publisher Sega announced that it would be publishing four unique properties developed by the company, which included "MadWorld", "Infinite Space", "Bayonetta", and "Vanquish". Their partnership later extended to include "Anarchy Reigns". However, none of these were a commercial success, even though most of them received high critical praise.
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Super Mario Super Mario (Japanese: スーパーマリオ , Hepburn: Sūpā Mario ) is a series of platform video games created by Nintendo featuring their mascot, Mario. Alternatively called the Super Mario Bros. (スーパーマリオブラザーズ , Sūpā Mario Burazāzu ) series or simply the Mario (マリオ ) series, it is the central series of the greater "Mario" franchise. At least one "Super Mario" game has been released for every major Nintendo video game console and handheld.
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Square Enix Square Enix Holdings Co., Ltd. (株式会社スクウェア・エニックス・ホールディングス , Kabushiki gaisha Sukuwea Enikkusu Hōrudingusu ) is a Japanese video game developer, publisher, and distribution company that is best known for its role-playing video game franchises, which include "Final Fantasy", "Dragon Quest", and "Kingdom Hearts". Several of its franchises have sold over 10 million copies, with the "Final Fantasy" franchise selling over 115 million, and the company as a whole made over ¥150 billion in revenue in fiscal year 2014. The Square Enix headquarters are in the Shinjuku Eastside Square Building in Shinjuku, Tokyo. The company employs over 3800 employees worldwide.
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Wii U The Wii U ( ) is a home video game console developed by Nintendo, and the successor to the Wii. The console was released in November 2012 and was the first eighth-generation video game console, as it competed with Sony's PlayStation 4 and Microsoft's Xbox One.
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Mario &amp; Luigi: Dream Team Mario & Luigi: Dream Team , known in Europe and Australia as Mario & Luigi: Dream Team Bros.,is a role-playing video game developed by AlphaDream for the Nintendo 3DS. Revealed on February 14, 2013 on Nintendo Direct, it is the fourth entry in the "Mario & Luigi" series of "Mario" role-playing games. The game was released in Europe on July 12, 2013, July 13, 2013 in Australia, July 18, 2013 in Japan and in North America on August 11, 2013. In the United States, a download code for the game was included with a silver Mario & Luigi themed Nintendo 3DS XL.
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Skip Ltd. Skip Ltd. (stylized as skip Ltd.) is a Japanese video game developer that has a close relationship with Nintendo Co., Ltd. Nintendo has published all of their Japanese releases; with the only notable exception being "LOL" ("Archime DS"), which skip Ltd. published independently. The company's staff includes prominent developers from Square such as Kenichi Nishi and Keita Eto.