Vivarium Inc. is a Japanese

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founded in 1996 by company president

Yoot Saito is a Japanese video game designer. In 1996, he founded the video game development company Vivarium Inc., Vivarium. His latest game is Guild01#Aero Porter, Aero Porter, which is part of a collection of games called Guild01 for the Nintendo 3DS. I ...

. It is famous for designing innovative video games which use voice recognition technology. ''

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handheld. In the Americas and Europe, the game was released as a standalone title on the Nintendo's eShop.

History

* 1993 - Yoot Saito founded OPeNBooK Co., Ltd. * 1996-04-04 - Yoot Saito founded VIVARIUM. * 1996-10 - OPeNBooK merged with 9003, inc and became OPeNBooK9003 inc. (オープンブック9003株式会社). Later, Yoot Saito retired from OPeNBooK9003. * 2000 - The original staff of OPeNBooK within OPeNBooK9003 left company and founded OPeNBooK (オープンブック). The new company held copyright for '' The Tower'', but OPeNBooK9003 held copyrights for '' Aquazone: Desktop Life'' and '' Pina: Desktop Life''. As a result, in 2003-3-21, OPeNBooK9003 inc. announced ending the production of The Tower II on 2003-3-31, followed by ending the sale of the game at AZ-SHOP and AZ-SHOP ONLINE on 2000-4-3. Support of the games continued until 2001-3-31. * 2000-7-1 - OPeNBooK9003 inc. was renamed to Cinomix, inc. * 2004-10 - VIVARIUM merged with OPeNBook, and renamed to VIVARIUM Inc.

Games developed as OPeNBooK

* '' SimTower: The Vertical Empire'' (1994) (

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Games developed as OPeNBooK9003

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Yoot Tower ''Yoot Tower'' (known in Japan as ''The Tower II'') is a 1998 construction and management simulation computer game. The game is a sequel to ''SimTower''. The lead designer, Yoot Saito, who also worked on ''SimTower'', produced this game as a s ...

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Games developed as VIVARIUM

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'' (1999) ( Dreamcast and

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The Tower SP ''The Tower SP'' is a 2005 construction and management simulation video game for the Game Boy Advance. It is a port and revision of ''SimTower'' (1994), known as ''The Tower'' in Japan, with some elements of '' Yoot Tower'' (1998). In the game, t ...

'' (2006) ( Game Boy Advance) * ''

'' (2006) ( Nintendo GameCube) * ''

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) * '' The Tower DS'' (2008) (

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References

External links

VIVARIUM's official web site
Software companies based in Tokyo Video game companies established in 1996 Video game companies of Japan Video game development companies {{Japan-videogame-company-stub