Locomotive
Not to be confused with the defunct THQ subsidiary Locomotive Games
Locomotive Corporation, Ltd. (株式会社ロコモティブ) was a Kyoto-based development house started in May 1987 and headed by Hiroshi Okamoto (岡本博視). The company opened offices in Vietnam (involved in business software) and Cambodia (later Locomo) in 1995 and 1996 respectively. [1]
Before establishing Locomotive, Okamoto worked for a subcontracting factory of Matsushita Electric Works (now Panasonic Electric Works) while he was a night student at Osaka Institute of Technology. This coincided with the "Famicom Boom;" Okamoto had a friend who worked at a company that was making money doing Famicom work, so Okamoto decided to go into game development instead of electronics. He started a sole proprietorship with two employees: his wife and himself. Their first project was Transformers: Convoy no Nazo for the Famicom, which they developed as a sub-subcontractor; Okamoto was the producer/manager, his wife was the graphic designer, and an outside part-timer was the programmer. [2] (video translation provided by "M")
Research Methods: Actual mentions, hidden data, shared staff
Famicom/NES
- StarTropics (some programming, sound) (US/CA/DE/SC Publisher: Nintendo)
- Zoda's Revenge: StarTropics II (some programming, sound) (US/CA Publisher: Nintendo)
Nintendo 64
- AeroGauge (JP/EU/US Publisher: ASCII)
- Beast Wars Metals 64 / Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals (JP Publisher: Takara; US Publisher: BAM! Entertainment)
- Graphics: SunArt
- Choro Q 64 / Penny Racers (JP Publisher: Takara; US Publisher: THQ)
- Choro Q 64 2: Hachamecha Grand Prix Race (JP Publisher: Takara)
- Doraemon: Nobita to 3-tsu no Seireiseki (JP Publisher: Epoch) [3]
Super Famicom/Super NES
- Super Punch-Out (some programming, some graphics, sound) (US/UK/FR/DE/SC/AU/JP Publisher: Nintendo)
Virtual Boy
- Galaxian³ (Attack of the Zolgear? [4]) (unreleased) (Namco?) [5]
- Niko-chan Battle / Faceball (unreleased) (BPS)
- SD Gundam Dimension War (JP Publisher: Bandai)
- V-Tetris (JP Publisher: BPS)
- Virtual Fishing (JP Publisher: Pack-In-Video)
- Virtual Gunman (unreleased) (Victor)
