Scitron & Art

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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. [1] Later it was primarily involved with voice and music production.

Scitron & Art was established on August 8, 1986 [2] as Digital Entertainment (デジタル・エンターテイメント) [3] 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. [4] He started Scitron & Art with members of Masanobu Endo's development company Game Studio. [5] It was originally meant to "be like a sibling company of Game Studio, doing music-related things" and was based in the same building. [6]

The interactive architecture division of Scitron & Art was acquired by DS Interactive, a subsidiary of Digital Garage, in May 2000. [7] 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) [8], which was acquired by Happinet as a subsidiary in 2004. [9] 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. [10]

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

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)
Developer: Newtopia Planning; 3D Effect Advice: Life Checker
  • The Quest of Ki (sound effects, sound programming) (JP Publisher: Namco) [11]
Developer: Game Studio
  • Sanrio Carnival (JP Publisher: Character Soft)
  • Shadow Brain (JP Publisher: Pony Canyon)
  • Tenkaichi Bushi: Keru Naguuru (sound) (JP Publisher: Namco)
Developer: Game Studio

Famicom Disk System

  • Otocky (programming) (JP Publisher: ASCII)
Developer: SEDIC

Game Boy

  • Sanrio Carnival (JP Publisher: Character Soft) [12]

Macintosh

  • Paddock Note '95 (JP Publisher: Fuji Television)
  • Shadow Brain (JP Publisher: Pony Canyon) [13] [14]
  • 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) [15]

PlayStation

  • Ecsaform (some CG movies, "Ecsaform Navigator" construction) (JP Publisher: Bandai Visual)
Developer: Image Works
  • Lifescape 2: Body Bionics (JP Publisher: Media Quest)
  • Lifescape: Seimei 40 Okunen Haruka na Tabi (JP Publisher: Media Quest)
  • Love² Torokko (JP Publisher: TYO)
Ending: D-Light [16]
The D-Light website refers to the game as Torokko a Go Go (トロッコ・ア・ゴーゴー)
  • Night Head: The Labyrinth (JP Publisher: Pony Canyon)
Main Programming: Beluga Computer [17]; Graphics: Imagelink?; Production Cooperation: I.S.C.

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)

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