Talk:Cybelle

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Judging by the credits for Incredible Machine and PolyChrome [1], I'm certain this company splintered off from Ving. Comparing with FMT Final Blow and Splatterhouse, I see Kenji Suzuki (Suzuken), Motoyasu Kisuki (KISS), Kiyokazu Kakiuchi (Kakibo), Hisakatsu Fujii, Shinya Yamamoto, Yuji Odaira, "Tamae", and "Cumulus", and possibly more that I've missed.

A bunch of people on PolyChrome also show up on PCE Alshark, PCE Might & Magic 3, and a bunch of PC98/FMT conversions of western PC games from the same period, but I'm not certain if that implicates Cybelle for those titles, or if some other company was contracted for these (Ocarina System?). I don't think we have enough information yet to say for sure. I haven't yet found credits for any other PC conversions they published. --Dimitri (talk) 10:21, 18 September 2016 (CEST)

I found one of the programmers. I don't know if there are any clues there, or you could try contacting him. CRV (talk) 17:35, 18 September 2016 (CEST)

Apparently a document included with Incredible Machine says Cybelle broke away from Ving? [2] And here's Kenji Suzuki. CRV (talk) 00:44, 19 September 2016 (CEST)

I couldn't find anything else hidden on the disk for PC98 Incredible Machine apart from the staff listing. The message described may be in the game's manual instead.

Kenji Suzuki's profile says he worked for Ving from 1990-1992, Cybelle from 1992-2012, and Prototype since then. Nearly all of Cybelle's later work was for NEC Interchannel and Prototype (which is headed by Toshio Tabeta, formerly of NEC), and that's about when Cybelle's website went offline. I wouldn't be surprised if Prototype acquired Cybelle and made it their internal dev team, though of course Prototype's corporate info page is extremely sparse and searches only turn up info on the charity release of Planetarian. --Dimitri (talk) 04:43, 20 September 2016 (CEST)