F2

F2 Company Limited (エフツウ株式会社) is a consulting company run by Fumio Kurokawa (黒川文雄). [1] Kurokawa was involved with the production of the Bandai Pippin ATMARK system [2]; as a result of that involvement, F2 set up a production team to develop games for it. Kurokawa was also the president of the publishing company Culture Publishers, the originators of the Simple 1500 series of budget-priced games. (Culture Publishers later sold its game business to D3 Publisher.) [3]

Most of the game development staff moved over to BEC around 2000, forming the core of BEC's Kanbe-gumi team.

Research Methods: Actual mentions, shared staff

Hybrid (Windows/Macintosh)

• Mouryou Senki Madara M-file (JP Publisher: Kadokawa Shoten) [4]

Direction, Visual Design: Compo Graphics; Technical Direction, Programming: Pict; Some Editing: Studio Wow!

PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16

• Color Wars (production cooperation) (JP Publisher: Coconuts Japan)

Developer: Tomcat System; Sound Direction: Gess Combinant

• Fujiko F Fujio no 21emon: Mezase! Hotel-Ou (JP Publisher: NEC)

Pippin/Macintosh

• Victorian Park (JP Publisher: Bandai Digital Entertainment)

Game Interface Design: Ashby; Some Sound Effects: Twofive

PlayStation

• Iwatobi Penguin Rocky x Hopper (JP Publisher: Inprore)

Character Design, Some Voice Casting: Polygon Pictures; Some 3D Background Design: Meak

• Iwatobi Penguin Rocky x Hopper 2: Tantei Monogatari (some production? 3D animation direction? additional character design?) (JP Publisher: Culture Publishers)

Developer: Infini Entertainment Technology; Character Design: Polygon Pictures; Some 3D Animation, 3D Modeling: Toshiba; Sound: Joedown

• Purumui Purumui (JP Publisher: Culture Publishers)

3D Movies & Backgrounds: Siliwood

• Simple 1500 Series Vol. 8: The Solitaire (JP Publisher: Culture Publishers)

Windows

• Gundam 0079: The War for Earth (translation) (US Publisher: Bandai Digital Entertainment)

Developer: Presto Studios

• Victorian Park (JP Publisher: Bandai Digital Entertainment)

Game Interface Design: Ashby; Some Sound Effects: Twofive

Links

• Official website (Japanese)
• Official website (Internet Archive Wayback Machine) (Japanese)