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Nintendo EAD Discography (2000-2006)

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Banned
1/06 - 12/06 (Nintendo Co., Ltd)
English Learning For Japanese! -- Nintendo DS-- (JAP)

1/05-12/05 (Nintendo Co., Ltd)
Brain Age 2: Train Your Brain --Nintendo DS-- (JAP)
Animal Crossing: Wild World -- Nintendo DS -- (USA/EUR/JAP)
Mario Kart: DS -- Nintendo DS -- (USA/EUR/JAP)
Big Brain Academy -- Nintendo DS -- (USA/EUR/JAP)
Brain Age 1: Train Your Brain -- Nintendo DS -- (USA/EUR/JAP)
Nintendogs: Pups and Friends -- Nintendo DS -- (USA/EUR/JAP)
Mahjong DS -- Nintendo DS -- (JAP)
Yoshi Touch N' Go -- Nintendo DS -- (USA/EUR/JAP)
Legendary Quiz King Battle -- Nintendo GameCube -- (JAP)

1/04-12/04 (Nintendo Co., Ltd)
Jam With The Band -- Nintendo DS -- (JAP)
Wario Ware Touched! -- Nintendo DS -- (USA/EUR/JAP) **
Super Mario 64 DS -- Nintendo DS-- (USA/EUR/JAP)
Donkey Kong: Jungle Beat -- Nintendo GameCube -- (USA/EUR/JAP)
Pikmin 2 -- Nintendo GameCube -- (USA/EUR/JAP)
The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures -- Nintendo GameCube -- (USA/EUR/JAP)
The Legend of Zelda: Tetra Trackers -- Nintendo GameCube -- (JAP)
Wario Ware: Twist! -- Gameboy Advance -- (USA/EUR/JAP) **
Metroid: Zero Mission -- Gameboy Advance -- (USA/EUR/JAP)

1/03 -- 12/03 (Nintendo Co., Ltd)
Mario Kart: Double Dash -- Nintendo GameCube -- (USA/EUR/JAP)
Wario Ware: Mega Party Games -- Nintendo GameCube -- (USA/EUR/JAP) **
Pokemon Box: Ruby & Sapphire -- Nintendo GameCube -- (USA/EUR/JAP)
Nintendo Puzzle Collection -- Nintendo GameCube -- (JAP) **
Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 -- Gameboy Advance -- (USA/EUR/JAP)
Wario Ware: Mega Micro Games -- Game Boy Advance -- (USA/EUR/JAP)

1/02 -- 12/02 (Nintendo Co., Ltd)
The Legend of Zelda: The Winder Waker -- Ninterndo GameCube -- (USA/EUR/JAP)
Animal Crossing -- Nintendo GameCube -- (USA/EUR/JAP)
Super Mario Sunshine -- Nintendo GameCube -- (USA/EUR/JAP)
The Legend of Zeda: A Link To The Past DX -- Gameboy Advance -- (USA/EUR/JAP) *
Metroid Fusion -- Gameboy Advance -- (USA/EUR/JAP)
Super Mario Advance 3: Yoshi's Island -- Gameboy Advance -- (USA/EUR/JAP)

1/01 -- 12/01 (Nintendo Co., Ltd)
Pikmin -- Nintendo GameCube -- (USA/EUR/JAP)
Luigi's Mansion -- Nintendo GameCube -- (USA/EUR/JAP)
Super Mario Advance 2: Super Mario World -- Gameboy Advance -- (USA/EUR/JAP)
Wario Land 4 -- Gameboy Advance -- (USA/EUR/JAP)
Super Mario Advance 1 -- Gameboy Advance -- (USA/EUR/JAP)

1/00 -- 12/00 (Nintendo Co., Ltd)
Pokemon Stadium 3 -- Nintendo 64 -- (USA/EUR/JAP)
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask -- Nintendo 64 -- (USA/EUR/JAP)
Kirby Tilt N' Tumble -- Gameboy Color -- (USA/EUR/JAP)
Wario Land 3 -- Gameboy Color -- (USA/EUR/JAP)
Pokemon Shock Tetris -- Pokemon Mini (JAP)

Key:
* Multiplayer Mini-Game Provided by Capcom Production Studio 1 & Flagship Co,, Ltd
** Co-developed with Intelligent Systems

Fun Facts:
Number of Games Developed: 42
Number of Games Developed With Assistance: 3
Number of Games Developed for Nintendo GameCube: 14
Number of Games Developed for Nintendo DS: 12
Number of Games Developed for Gameboy Advance: 10
Number of Games Developed for Gameboy Color: 2
Number of Games Developed for Pokemon Mini: 1
Number of Mario Games Developed: 6
Number of Zelda Games Developed: 4
Number of Pokemon Games Developed: 3
Number of Metroid Games Developed: 2
Number of Mario Kart Games Developed: 2
Number of Kirby Games Developed: 1
Number of Brain Games Developed: 3
Number of Simulation Games Developed: 3
Number of Music Games Developed: 1
Number of Arcade Style Games Developed: 0 (RIP Wave Race, 1080, Star Fox, Stunt Race)
Number of RPGs Developed: 0

Top Director: Kouichi Kawamoto (Brain Age 1, Brain Age 2, Wario Ware Inc)
Top Producer: Hideki Konno (Mario Kart: DS, Nintendogs!)
Award: Most Successful Japanese Development Team
 
Nice, I own every single EAD game released in USA in the last 6 years(well OWNED, I lost Kirby TNT, will rebuy someday though).
 
Number of RPGs Developed: 0
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one of the reasons I love EAD.

So they made nearly all of the million sellers on DS so far? Some fat Easter bonuses must be going around.
 
Brain Training, Brain Training 2, and Brain Flex:

Which one(s) is Shinya Takahashi's and which ones(s) is Hiroyuki Kimura's? They were the producers, correct?
 
Well done EAD (or Nintendo) Ninja!
It is a fact that Wario Ware Twisted for GameBoy Advanced is to be released here in Italy.
 
Not to nitpick but what happened to...


Mario Artist: Talent Studio (64DD) 2000
Trade & Battle: Card Hero (GBC) 2000*
F-Zero X Expansion Kit (64DD) 2000
Mario Artist: Communication Studio (64DD) 2000
Mario Artist: Polygon Studio (64DD) 2000
Tottoko Hamtaro (GBC) 2000
Phantom Zona (GBC) 2000
Tottoko Hamtaro 2 (GBC) 2001
Animal Forest (N64) 2001
Tottoko Hamtaro 3 (GBA) 2002
Korokoro Puzzle: Happy Panechu! (GBA) 2002
Sakura Momoko no Ukiuki Carnival (GBA) 2002
Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Master Quest (GC) 2003**
Animal Forest e+ (GC) 2003
Famicom Mini Vol.1 (GBA) 2004
Mother 1+2 (GBA) 2004
Famicom Mini Vol.2 (GBA) 2004
Famicom Mini Vol.3 (GBA) 2004
F-Zero Climax (GBA) 2004
Sennen Kazoku (GBA) 2005
Dr. Mario + Puzzle League (GBA) 2005*

*co-developed with Intelligent Systems
** co-developed with NST
 
jarrod said:
Not to nitpick but what happened to...


Mario Artist: Talent Studio (64DD) 2000
Trade & Battle: Card Hero (GBC) 2000*
F-Zero X Expansion Kit (64DD) 2000
Mario Artist: Communication Studio (64DD) 2000
Mario Artist: Polygon Studio (64DD) 2000
Tottoko Hamtaro (GBC) 2000
Phantom Zona (GBC) 2000
Tottoko Hamtaro 2 (GBC) 2001
Animal Forest (N64) 2001
Tottoko Hamtaro 3 (GBA) 2002
Korokoro Puzzle: Happy Panechu! (GBA) 2002
Sakura Momoko no Ukiuki Carnival (GBA) 2002
Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Master Quest (GC) 2003**
Animal Forest e+ (GC) 2003
Famicom Mini Vol.1 (GBA) 2004
Mother 1+2 (GBA) 2004
Famicom Mini Vol.2 (GBA) 2004
Famicom Mini Vol.3 (GBA) 2004
F-Zero Climax (GBA) 2004
Sennen Kazoku (GBA) 2005
Dr. Mario + Puzzle League (GBA) 2005*

*co-developed with Intelligent Systems
** co-developed with NST
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didn't suzak co-develop f-zero climax?

what hamtaro games did alphadream develop?
 
Not to nitpick but what happened to...
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Mario Artist: Talent Studio (64DD) 2000
F-Zero X Expansion Kit (64DD) 2000
Mario Artist: Communication Studio (64DD) 2000
Mario Artist: Polygon Studio (64DD) 2000
Animal Forest (N64) 2001
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Good point! I did forget those.

Trade & Battle: Card Hero
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I thought about this one. I should include it.

Phantom Zona (GBC) 2000
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I can't prove EAD was the developer.


Tottoko Hamtaro (GBC) 2000
Tottoko Hamtaro 2 (GBC) 2001
Tottoko Hamtaro 3 (GBA) 2002
Mother 1+2 (GBA) 2004
Korokoro Puzzle: Happy Panechu! (GBA) 2002
Sakura Momoko no Ukiuki Carnival (GBA) 2002
Sennen Kazoku (GBA) 2005
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I will explain these in the future.

Dr. Mario + Puzzle League (GBA) 2005*
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I wasn't able to confirm EAD did the Dr Mario GBA game. It could have been Newcom or even NST.

Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Master Quest (GC) 2003**
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I know. For some reason I didn't feel like including it as a game.

Animal Forest e+ (GC) 2003
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To be honest this game is just Animal Crossing the USA version. I would consider Animal Forest N64, and Animal Forest e+ (Animal Crossing USA) as two actual releases instead of the three games that were published. Do you get what I'm saying?

Famicom Mini Vol.1 (GBA) 2004
Famicom Mini Vol.2 (GBA) 2004
Famicom Mini Vol.3 (GBA) 2004
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Well. I wanted to highlight the development efforts rather than amount of games published. These all ran through that emulator Tomohiro Kawase and Hideaku Shimizu programed at EAD.

F-Zero Climax (GBA) 2004
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Suzac mainly with an EAD guy or two producing.


does anyone know what involvement plato had in english learning? they're on the
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Pratt? Well this company developed this popular PC program. EAD got the rights and reprogrammed it for DS. Kind of like when they did Sim City on SNES.

what hamtaro games did alphadream develop?
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They did like the last 2 or 3 no??

Which one(s) is Shinya Takahashi's and which ones(s) is Hiroyuki Kimura's? They were the producers, correct?
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Shinya Takahashi has Brain Age 1/Brain Age 2/Jam With The Band/Learn English under his division. Hiroyuki Kimura has Big Brain Academy.

Wario Ware: Twisted! was developed by Intelligent System.
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The original Wario Ware GBA game was developed by EAD alone. But the last 3 (GC, GBA sequel, NDS) were co-developed by EAD and Intelligent Systems. Check the credits it's pretty much 50/50. EAD does the graphic design, music, and game design. Intelligent Systems does most of the programming (Though both Touched and Twisted also have EAD programmers).
 
Wasn't Yoshio Sakamoto the producer of the Wario Ware Touched and Twisted games?

And thanks for the clarification of the Brain Training games, Ninja.
 
Shiggy said:
Hmm, didn't see it it <- I am blind...


The Legend of Zelda: Tetra Trackers, wasn't it renamed?
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My understanding was that Tetra's Trackers was just absorbed into the Japanese version of Four Swords Adventures in addition to the Hyrulean Adventure and Shadow Battle pieces of the game.
 
Oblivion said:
IS at least has been up to par this gen. :)
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Up to par? IS has been, hands down, one of the very best development studios period this gen. I can't wait to see what those awesome bastards do with the Revolution, and what they do next with the DS.
 
ethelred said:
Up to par? IS has been, hands down, one of the very best development studios period this gen.
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Yeah, I probably should have said much more improved this time around. FE: PoR And Paper Mario 2 were fucking phenomenal.
 
Wow Nintendo has been Milking EAD like crazy. Iwata leave them the fuck alone and let them go back to making awesome original games!!

Not to say I haven't enjoyed a lot of titles on that list... but it really doesn't compare to the old EAD. I'd rather have 10 of the former EADs games than fifty from this one.
 
Shikamaru Ninja said:
I will explain these in the future.
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:(


Shikamaru Ninja said:
I wasn't able to confirm EAD did the Dr Mario GBA game. It could have been Newcom or even NST.
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I could've been NST I guess... Newcom doesn't exist anymore though I think.


Shikamaru Ninja said:
I know. For some reason I didn't feel like including it as a game.
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But it's sorta new. :(


Shikamaru Ninja said:
To be honest this game is just Animal Crossing the USA version. I would consider Animal Forest N64, and Animal Forest e+ (Animal Crossing USA) as two actual releases instead of the three games that were published. Do you get what I'm saying?
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Yeah, I can see it.


Shikamaru Ninja said:
Well. I wanted to highlight the development efforts rather than amount of games published. These all ran through that emulator Tomohiro Kawase and Hideaku Shimizu programed at EAD.
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Yeah, that makes sense.


Shikamaru Ninja said:
Suzac mainly with an EAD guy or two producing.
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I thought Suzac did Falcon Densetsu/GP Legend only? They were behind Climax too?
 
I've been looking up the credits for Super Princess Peach and I think it's an EAD game, maybe from a newly formed team(?)

They show many Nintendo employees from previous Nintendo games and some new people I couldn't find any background on (from moby):
http://www.themushroomkingdom.net/spp_credits-jpn.shtml

Super Princess Peach
Game credits (Japan)

Conception
Takayuki Ikeda

Main Programming
Kenta Egami - One of the Main Programmers for Game & Watch Gallery 4 http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,158525/

Programming
Hisatsugu Shiro
Kazuya Watanabe
Shintarou Iguchi
Takeshi Yoshida
Naotaka Noda

Main Design
Akira Mochizuki - Game Design Game & Watch Gallery 4 http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,158528/
Yuuichirou Nakayama

Design
Atsushi Okamoto
Kazuya Doi
Mika Nishitsuji
Ryousuke Kusada

Voice
Jen Taylor
Scott Burns
Charles Martinet

Sound Programming
Music
Akira Fujiwara - A Metroid Fusion composer http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,94264/

Character Supervision
You Oonishi
Shigehisa Nakaue - Mario spin offs - http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,159107/
Kanae Kobota
Tsuyoshi Watanabe - Many Nintendo games http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,37344/
Youichi Kotabe - Nany Nintendo games http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,69462/

Artwork
Yasuko Takahashi - Many Nintendo games http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,94268/
Daiki Nishioka - nintendogs http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,116104/
Chiharu Sakiyama - matroid games, another code http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,74230/

Special Thanks
Akito Nakatsuka

Debug
Super Mario Club

Debug Support
Shuuichi Narusawa
Masahiro Takeguchi

Director
Akio Imai
Azusa Tajima - F-Zero: GP Legend, Wario World http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,97693/

Producer
Yasahiro Minamimoto - Game & Watch Gallery 4 http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,158524/
Hitoshi Yamagami - Many Nintendo games http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,50693/

General Producer
Shin Kondou

Executive Producer
Satoru Iwata
 
Now compare them to the Stafi credits:

Densetsu no Stafi 3

Conception
Tatsuhiro Takasago
Naoya Ikeda

Main Programming
Satoshi Nakajima
Kouichi Kitano

Programming
Shinya Morimoto
Shigemitsu Miura
Kazuya Watanabe
Takashi Miyashita

Main Design
Koutarou Shinoki

Design
Atsushi Okamoto
Yuri Mitsutake
Mika Nishitsuji

Package Edition
Yasuko Takahashi

Manual Edition
Yoshinori Oda

Music
Morihiro Iwamoto

Special Thanks
Kenta Egami
Erika Hara
Yosuke Tomikawa
Akihiro Ikawa
Yoshihiro Kanazawa
Keiko Takeoka
Shuichi Narusawa
Super Mario Club

Director
Akio Imai
Azusa Tajima

Producer
Yasuhiro Minamimoto
Hitoshi Yamagami

General Producer
Shin Kondo

Executive Producer
Satoru Iwata
 
thanks.

so tose did develop super princess peach.

Shiggy said:
I really wonder why it is nowhere told that this was made by TOSE.
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yeah, i found it odd they weren't credited on the site, when they were on the stafi games:
peach:
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ds/aspj/index.html
stafi:
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/n08/b3dj/index.html
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/n08/avfj/index.html
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/n08/astj/index.html

i also thought it didn't look or play like an ead game, which was also confusing.

i'm actually happy it is a tose game, i enjoyed the stafi series for what they were, entertaining, if easy, platformers.
 
ziran said:
yeah, i found it odd they weren't credited on the site, when they were on the stafi games
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probably because the stafi games are copyrighted to tose and mario universe isn't.

looking at those two staff credits lists, peach and stafi. the two teams are not at all the same, mostly executive type positions are the same, actual teams are almost completely different.
 
Joseph Merrick said:
looking at those two staff credits lists, peach and stafi. the two teams are not at all the same, mostly executive type positions are the same, actual teams are almost completely different.
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TOSE has like 200 development staff in Japan and China. They're actually really huge and have worked on tons of different games from Starfi to Dragon Quest Monsters to Virtua Quest to Shrek to Sega GT.
 
jarrod said:
TOSE has like 200 development staff in Japan and China. They're actually really huge and have worked on tons of different games from Starfi to Dragon Quest Monsters to Virtua Quest to Shrek to Sega GT.
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Yeah, all TOSE. I know. The thing was just with people comparing the teams earlier I just wanted to point out the actual teams that did the creative work on the games are not at all the same.
 
Joseph Merrick said:
Yeah, all TOSE. I know. The thing was just with people comparing the teams earlier I just wanted to point out the actual teams that did the creative work on the games are not at all the same.
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Well, they do have 5 "development centers" spread through Japan and China plus an online/network focused subsidiary (T-net). I misspoke earlier too, TOSE claims to have around 750 staff (though obviously they won't all be in game R&D).

They also claim a pretty substantial list of clients...
-Atlus Co., Ltd.
-Avex Network Inc.
-Bandai Co., Ltd.
-Banpresto Co., Ltd.
-Buena Vista Games, Inc.
-Capcom Co., Ltd.
-Cavia Inc.
-Colombia Music Entertainment, Inc.
-D3Publisher Inc.
-Disney Interactive, Inc.
-Electronic Arts K.K.
-Faith, Inc.
-Fujiko F. Fujio Pro Co., Ltd.
-Genki Co., Ltd.
-Imagineer Co., Ltd.
-Interchannel, Ltd.
-Jaleco Ltd.
-Kaga Electronics Co., Ltd.
-Kaga Tech Co., Ltd.
-Ken-On Inc.
-Kodansha Ltd.
-Koei Co., Ltd.
-Konami Computer Entertainment Japan, Inc.
-Konami Computer Entertainment Studio, Inc.
-Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo, Inc.
-Konami Corporation
-Konami Media Entertainment, Inc.
-Konami Online, Inc.
-Marvelous Entertainment Inc.
-Marvelous Interactive Inc.
-Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
-Namco Limited
-Netvillage Co., Ltd.
-Nintendo Co., Ltd.
-NTT DoCoMo Kansai, Inc.
-Panasonic Mobile Communications Co., Ltd.
-Red Entertainment Corporation
-Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
-San-ai Company, Ltd. Giga Networks Company
-Sega Corporation
-Sega Toys, Ltd.
-Sony Corporation
-Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Japan, Inc.
-Square Enix Co., Ltd.
-Sunrise Interactive Co., Ltd.
-Taito Corporation
-Take-Two Licensing, Inc.
-THQ Inc.
-Tomy Company, Ltd.
-TV Tokyo Corporation
-Vodafone Global Content Services Limited.
-Walt Disney Japan Inc.


For Nintendo at least, they've made..

-Densetsu no Starfi (GBA) 2002
-Game & Watch Gallery 4 (GBA) 2002
-Densetsu no Starfi 2 (GBA) 2003
-Densetsu no Starfi 3 (GBA) 2004
-Super Princess Peach (DS) 2005
-Densetsu no Starfi 4 (DS) 2006
 
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