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''Not to be confused with the defunct THQ subsidiary Locomotive Games''

'''Locomotive Corporation, Ltd.''' ({{#tip-text: 株式会社ロコモティブ | Kabushiki Kaisha Locomotive}}) was a Kyoto-based development house started in May 1987 and headed by Hiroshi Okamoto (岡本博視). The company opened offices in [https://web.archive.org/web/20000302211051/http://www.locomotive.co.jp/vn/index.html Vietnam] (involved in business software) and Cambodia (later [https://web.archive.org/web/20020408154222/http://www.locomo.com:80/locomo/company.html Locomo]) in 1995 and 1996 respectively. [https://web.archive.org/web/20001119024900/http://www.locomotive.co.jp/company/index.html]

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. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIwjWSVfkWA] (video translation provided by "M")

'''[[About:Research Methods|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)
:<small>Graphics: SunArt</small>
*''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) [https://www.wantedly.com/users/77962007]

===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''? [http://koyokobe.blog20.fc2.com/blog-entry-548.html]) (unreleased) (Namco?) [https://www.wantedly.com/users/77962007]
*''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)

==Links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/19980401000000*/http://www.locomotive.co.jp/ Official website (Internet Archive Wayback Machine)] (Japanese)

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