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Pokémon Mystery Dungeon
is a spin-off video game from the main ''Pokémon'' series developed by Spike Chunsoft (formerly Chunsoft). The games feature the fictional creatures called Pokémon who have the ability to speak human language navigating through a randomly generated dungeon using turn-based moves, common to '' Mystery Dungeon'' games. , there have been eleven games across five platforms, as well as several manga adaptations and animated specials. These games are based in dungeons (“mystery dungeons”) where a floor map is randomly generated. In the dungeons, players fight other Pokémon while obtaining items and finding stairs to the next floor, exiting the dungeon after a fixed number of floors. Across all installments, the series has sold over million copies. Gameplay Although there are different features in each of the titles, the major aspects of gameplay in each title are the same. It is also generally seen as an easier edition of the other ''Mystery Dungeon'' games. The playe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spike Chunsoft
is a Japanese video game development and video game localization, localization company specializing in role-playing video games, visual novels and adventure games. The company was founded in 1984 as Chunsoft Co., Ltd. and merged with Spike (company), Spike in 2012. It is owned by Dwango (company), Dwango. It created games such as the first five ''Dragon Quest'' installments and the ''Mystery Dungeon'' franchise as Chunsoft, and the ''Conception (video game), Conception'' series as Spike Chunsoft. They also developed titles such as ''The Portopia Serial Murder Case'', the ''Otogirisō#Release and reception, Sound Novel'' series (consisting of ''Otogirisō'', ''Kamaitachi no Yoru'', ''Machi (video game), Machi'' and ''428: Shibuya Scramble'') and the ''Zero Escape'' series as Chunsoft. Spike developed ''Danganronpa'' before the merger. History Chunsoft Chunsoft was founded by Koichi Nakamura, a video game designer and programmer who had worked with Enix, including the popular ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Explorers Of Time And Explorers Of Darkness
Exploration is the process of exploring, an activity which has some expectation of discovery. Organised exploration is largely a human activity, but exploratory activity is common to most organisms capable of directed locomotion and the ability to learn, and has been described in, amongst others, social insects foraging behaviour, where feedback from returning individuals affects the activity of other members of the group. Types Geographical Geographical exploration, sometimes considered the default meaning for the more general term exploration, is the practice of discovering lands and regions of the planet Earth remote or relatively inaccessible from the origin of the explorer. The surface of the Earth not covered by water has been relatively comprehensively explored, as access is generally relatively straightforward, but underwater and subterranean areas are far less known, and even at the surface, much is still to be discovered in detail in the more remote and inaccessib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
EarthBound
''EarthBound'', originally released in Japan as is a 1994 role-playing video game, role-playing video game developed by Ape, Inc., Ape Inc. and HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System as the second entry in the Mother (video game series), ''Mother'' series. The game focuses on a young boy named Ness (EarthBound), Ness and his party (role-playing games), party of Paula, Jeff and Poo, as they travel the world to collect melodies from eight Sanctuaries in order to defeat the universal cosmic destroyer Giygas. ''EarthBound'' had a lengthy development period that spanned five years. Its returning staff from ''Mother (video game), Mother'' (1989) included writer/director Shigesato Itoi and lead programmer Satoru Iwata, as well as composers Keiichi Suzuki and Hirokazu Tanaka, who incorporated a diverse range of styles into the Music of the Mother series#EarthBound, soundtrack, including salsa music, salsa, reggae, and dub music, dub. Most of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Satoru Iwata
Satoru Iwata (; December6, 1959July11, 2015) was a Japanese businessman, video game programmer and producer. Beginning in 2002, he was the fourth president of Nintendo, as well as the chief executive officer (CEO) of Nintendo of America from 2013 until his death in 2015. Iwata was a major contributor in broadening the appeal of video games by focusing on novel and entertaining games rather than top-of-the-line hardware. Born in Sapporo, Iwata expressed interest in video games from an early age and created his first simple game while in high school. He majored in computer science at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. In 1980, he joined the game developer HAL Laboratory while attending the university. At HAL, he worked as a programmer and closely collaborated with Nintendo, producing his first commercial game in 1983. Games to which he contributed include ''EarthBound'' and many games in the ''Kirby (series), Kirby'' series. Following a downturn and near-bankruptcy, Iwata became ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shin-ichiro Tomie
is a Japanese game director, writer and part of Spike Chunsoft's affiliation. Since 1995, he contributes to the company with the ''Mystery Dungeon'' franchise as the main writer for the ''Shiren the Wanderer'', and ''Pokémon Mystery Dungeon'' series. Prior to his affiliation to the company in 1992, he has also contributed in Tecmo's ''Tecmo Bowl'' series of sport games. Career His hobby is soccer, and the ''Captain Tsubasa'' series was his initial source of inspiration. Tecmo Tomie joined Tecmo, now known as Koei Tecmo, after graduating from university. During that time, he was engaged in soccer-themed games, such as ''Tecmo Bowl'' in 1987 and ''Captain Tsubasa II'' in 1990. For ''Tecmo Super Bowl'', published in 1991, though Japan had limited NFL coverage overall in the late 1980s, him and programmer Akihiko Shimoji were recording games from NHK satellite TVs to reproduce it in-game. Tomie's passion on sports has also helped the team to work on ''Tecmo Super Bowl''. Chunsoft L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mystery Dungeon
''Mystery Dungeon'', known in Japan as is a series of roguelike Roguelike (or rogue-like) is a style of role-playing game traditionally characterized by a dungeon crawl through procedurally generated levels, turn-based gameplay, grid-based movement, and permanent death of the player character. Most ro ... role-playing video games. Most were developed by Chunsoft, now Spike Chunsoft since the merging in 2012, and select games were developed by other companies with Chunsoft's permission. The series began when co–creator of ''Dragon Quest'', Koichi Nakamura, was inspired by Seiichiro Nagahata's experience with ''Rogue (video game), Rogue'', who is also a fellow developer from the company, and a desire to create an original series. It began on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Super Famicom, progressing to almost all of Nintendo's and Sony's home and handheld consoles, WonderSwan, Dreamcast, Microsoft Windows, Windows, and Mobile game, mobile devices. The series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
