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'''Scitron & Art Inc.''' (サイトロン・アンド・アート株式会社) was a company known mostly for releasing video game music soundtracks, but was also for a time involved in software development. [https://web.archive.org/web/20091103105837/http://www.ga-core.net/special/sp01-02.php#05] Later it was primarily involved with voice and music production.

Scitron & Art was established on August 8, 1986 [https://web.archive.org/web/19980208155029/http://scitron.co.jp/scitron/company.htm] as '''Digital Entertainment''' (デジタル・エンターテイメント) [https://www.4gamer.net/games/999/G999905/20230301032/] by Kazusuke Obi (小尾一介), a former A&R man at Alpha Records (YMO's record company) who also started Alpha's G.M.O. Records video game music label. [https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B5%E3%82%A4%E3%83%88%E3%83%AD%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88] He started Scitron & Art with members of Masanobu Endo's development company Game Studio. [https://akiba-pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/column/masudaretro/1079106.html] It was originally meant to "be like a sibling company of Game Studio, doing music-related things" and was based in the same building. [https://igcc.jp/%e3%82%b5%e3%82%a4%e3%83%88%e3%83%ad%e3%83%b32/]

The interactive architecture division of Scitron & Art was acquired by DS Interactive, a subsidiary of Digital Garage, in May 2000. [https://www.garage.co.jp/ja/ir/library/pdf/2002yuhou.pdf] In 2001, the digital contents division was spun off into Scitron Digital Contents (サイトロン・デジタルコンテンツ株式会社) [https://web.archive.org/web/20050321105549/http://www.scitron.co.jp:80/outline/history.html], which was acquired by Happinet as a subsidiary in 2004. [https://www.happinet.co.jp/english/ir/ir_data/pdf/200903kessansiryou.pdf] The business of Scitron Digital Contents was transferred to Happinet on April 1, 2006, and liquidation of the company was completed on September 20, 2006. [https://www.happinet.co.jp/english/ir/ir_data/pdf/2006_first-half_results_briefing.pdf]

This entry covers software development, not audio production work the company did.

'''[[About:Research Methods|Research Methods]]:''' Actual mentions, online resources

===3DO===
*''Dennou Hyouryuu: Multimedia Cruising'' (JP Publisher: Hamlet)
*''Paddock Note '95'' (JP Publisher: Fuji Television)
*''Theater Wars: Goraku no Dendou'' (JP Publisher: Hamlet)

===Famicom/NES===
*''Attack Animal Gakuen'' (programming?) (JP Publisher: Pony Canyon)
:<small>Developer: Newtopia Planning; 3D Effect Advice: Life Checker</small>
*''The Quest of Ki'' (sound effects, sound programming) (JP Publisher: Namco) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8ZPyrzj5c8]
:<small>Developer: Game Studio</small>
*''Sanrio Carnival'' (JP Publisher: Character Soft)
*''Shadow Brain'' (JP Publisher: Pony Canyon)
*''Tenkaichi Bushi: Keru Naguuru'' (sound) (JP Publisher: Namco)
:<small>Developer: Game Studio</small>

===Famicom Disk System===
*''Otocky'' (programming) (JP Publisher: ASCII)
:<small>Developer: SEDIC</small>

===Game Boy===
*''Sanrio Carnival'' (JP Publisher: Character Soft) [http://www.iris.dti.ne.jp/~haya-c/funkykh/profile.html]

===Macintosh===
*''Paddock Note '95'' (JP Publisher: Fuji Television)
*''Shadow Brain'' (JP Publisher: Pony Canyon) [http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/サイトロン・アンド・アート] [https://web.archive.org/web/20090303153715/http://www.enuzu.co.jp/enuzu/cd_rom.htm]
*''Virtual Variety Show'' (JP Publisher: Scitron & Art)
*''World Engine Fantazion'' (JP Publisher: Scitron & Art)

===Mega Drive/Genesis===
*''F1 Construction'' (''Super License'' / ''F-1 Constructors''?) (unreleased) [http://www.iris.dti.ne.jp/~haya-c/funkykh/profile.html]

===PlayStation===
*''Ecsaform'' (some CG movies, "Ecsaform Navigator" construction) (JP Publisher: Bandai Visual)
:<small>Developer: [[Image Works]]</small>
*''Lifescape 2: Body Bionics'' (JP Publisher: Media Quest)
*''Lifescape: Seimei 40 Okunen Haruka na Tabi'' (JP Publisher: Media Quest)
*''Love² Torokko'' (JP Publisher: TYO)
:<small>Ending: D-Light [http://www.d-light-inc.co.jp/works.htm]</small>
:<small>The D-Light website refers to the game as ''Torokko a Go Go'' (''トロッコ・ア・ゴーゴー'')</small>
*''Night Head: The Labyrinth'' (JP Publisher: Pony Canyon)
:<small>Main Programming: Beluga Computer [http://www.beluga-com.jp/page/office02.html]; Graphics: Imagelink?; Production Cooperation: [[I.S.C.]]</small>

===Saturn===
*''Lifescape 2: Body Bionics'' (JP Publisher: Media Quest)
*''Lifescape: Seimei 40 Okunen Haruka na Tabi'' (JP Publisher: Media Quest)
*''Ryouri no Tetsujin: Kitchen Stadium Tour'' (JP Publisher: Hamlet)

===Windows===
*''Paddock Note '95'' (JP Publisher: Fuji Television)
*''Paddock Note '96'' (JP Publisher: Fuji Television)
*''Paddock Note III'' (JP Publisher: Fuji Television)
*''World Engine Fantazion'' (JP Publisher: Scitron & Art)

==Links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.scitron.co.jp/ Official website (Internet Archive Wayback Machine)] (Japanese)
:*[https://web.archive.org/web/19970624032024/www.scitron.co.jp/scitron/cdrom.htm Interactive Contents Group section (Internet Archive Wayback Machine)] (Japanese)
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20091103105837/http://www.ga-core.net/special/sp01-02.php#05 GA-Core Scitron interview (section about software development)] (Japanese)
*[https://jfk.5ch.net/test/read.cgi/gsaloon/1163933211/532-536 2ch conversation] (Japanese)
*[https://igcc.jp/%e3%82%b5%e3%82%a4%e3%83%88%e3%83%ad%e3%83%b32/ Fathers of Video Game Music: Kazusuke Obi x Yoshihiro Ohno Double Interview] (Japanese)

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