Iwasaki

Iwasaki Electronics Co., Ltd. (岩崎技研工業株式会社; Iwasaki Giken Kogyo Co., Ltd.; formerly Iwasaki Engineering Co., Ltd. in English) was a Kyoto-based company known primarily for making software development tools such as in-circuit emulators. Hiroji Iwasaki was the president. [1] It may have shut down around 2000. [2]

Iwasaki was contracted by Nintendo to reverse engineer the arcade game Donkey Kong so the latter could produce the sequel Donkey Kong Junior. [3] Nintendo did not have the source code as that was written by another company (Ikegami Tsushinki). Iwasaki would go on to program several of Nintendo's early Famicom/NES games. Members of Iwasaki left and started a new company in 1986 called Intelligent Systems [4], which continues to develop games and tools and has maintained a close relationship with Nintendo for its entire existence.

Iwasaki was once the parent company of HAL Laboratory. [5] [6]

Research Methods: Hidden data, online resources

Arcade

• Donkey Kong Jr. / Donkey Kong Junior (programming) (Nintendo) [7] [8]
• Space Stranger (Yachiyo)

The company's name is written (in Japanese) on the schematics. [9] [10]

• Vs. Soccer (Nintendo)

Famicom/NES

• Devil World (programming)
• Donkey Kong 3 (programming?)
• Duck Hunt (programming?)
• Hogan's Alley (programming?)
• Mario Bros. (programming?)
• Robot Block / Stack-Up (programming?)
• Robot Gyro / Gyromite (programming?)
• Soccer
• Tennis (programming?)
• Wild Gunman (programming?)
• Wrecking Crew (programming?)

Famicom Disk System

• Metroid (programming)
• PALPS (unreleased) (Lomas) [11] [12] [13] [14] [15]
• Soccer
• Tennis (programming?)

Links

• Blog Post: The True Origins of Intelligent Systems?
• Blog Post: The True Origins of Intelligent Systems? Part Deux
• Noncredit Report - Nintendo (Japanese)