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 and selling 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 to reverse engineer the arcade game Donkey Kong so that Nintendo could produce the sequel Donkey Kong Junior. [3] Nintendo did not have the source code to the original game 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 then left and started a new company in 1986 called Intelligent Systems [4], which for its entire existence has maintained a close relationship with Nintendo developing games and tools.

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)