Wood Place

Wood Place Inc. (株式会社ウッドプレイス) was founded by Masao Suzuki (鈴木正夫), who left Nichibutsu in June 1982. It was incorporated in August 1984. The company went bankrupt on March 3, 1988. (Game Machine 1988/4/1, pg. 26)

Before he started KID, Hisayoshi Ichikawa worked as a producer at Wood Place. [1]

A Masao Suzuki is head of JNNEX, distributor of the Retro-Bit Generations system in Japan. It is not confirmed that this is the same person, but one version of the Retro-Bit Generations contains Wood Place games.

Research Methods: Actual mentions, interviews

Arcade

• The Alphax Z

Developer: Kaneko (Electro Design?)

• Clash Road

Developer: Graphic Research

• The Deep

Some Programming?: Artman; Some Programming, Sound: I.T.L

• Fire Trap

Shares the same graphical style as The Deep

• King of Boxer

Planning, Character Design, Graphics: Neue Design; Programming, Sound, Hardware Design: Jastec

• Ninja Web

For the record, this is an electromechanical game by an American company called Allegro.

Famicom/NES

• Family Boxing / Ring King (additional planning) (JP Publisher: Namco; US Publisher: Data East)

Planning, Character Design, Graphics: Neue Design; Programming, Sound: Jastec

Links

• Company catalog