Marigul was a Japanese corporation created and jointly owned by video game company

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Co., Ltd. (40%) and media company Recruit (60%). Its name is a combination of Nintendo's mascot Mario and Recruit's mascot Seegul. Marigul was founded because the Nintendo 64 was not getting enough third-party support. Marigul would provide financing, to let game studios focus on making games. The only condition was that the studios would have a game ready in five years.

Studios

Marigul provided services for the video game studios Ambrella, Clever Trick, Noise,

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, and Saru Brunei. Although Marigul was liquidated in May 2003, Noise continues to make games, as did Ambrella until it was disbanded in 2020. Many games financed by Marigul have not been localized or released in North America.

Saru Brunei

Saru Brunei was a Tokyo-based

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that worked in partnership with

between 1996 and 2003 as a part of Marigul Management. Saru Brunei was headed up by former Nintendo game designer

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. Matsumoto was

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's right-hand man for 15 years. Saru Brunei was made defunct as Marigul was liquidated in May 2003. Saru Brunei was responsible for the cancelled Nintendo 64 game, ''Doubutsu Banchou'' (lit. ''Animal Leader''), which was coded by Intelligent Systems. The studio then ported the game to the Nintendo GameCube as '' Cubivore: Survival of the Fittest'' in 2002. The game was published by Nintendo in Japan, but published by

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in North America. Other games include ''Jungle Park'' on PlayStation and ''Jungle Park: Saturn Jima'' on Sega Saturn.

Clever Trick

Clever Trick was a

that worked in partnership with

. Clever Trick was a part of Marigul Management. Clever Trick was developing Echo Delta for the 64DD accessory, but Nintendo decided to cancel Echo Delta in 1999. Clever Trick was made defunct as Marigul was liquidated in May 2003.

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