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Established on December 2, 1981, '''System Sacom Corp.''' (株式会社システムサコム) was a hardware and software company in Tokyo. [http://web.archive.org/web/19980128082704/http://www.sacom.co.jp/aboutus/aboutus_t.html] The company withdrew from the game industry in 1998 [http://web.archive.org/web/20131025085535/http://www.gpara.com/contents/creator/bn_251.php] and focused on its hardware business.
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Established on December 2, 1981, '''System Sacom Corp.''' (株式会社システムサコム) was a computer hardware and software company in Tokyo. [https://web.archive.org/web/19980623222146/http://www.sacom.co.jp/aboutus/aboutus_t.html] It withdrew from the game industry in 1998 [https://web.archive.org/web/20131025085535/http://www.gpara.com/contents/creator/bn_251.php] and focused on its hardware business. (System Sacom Corp. later became [or spun off] System Sacom
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Sales Corp. [株式会社システムサコム販売], which was renamed System Sacom Industry Corp. [システムサコム工業株式会社] in 2010.)
  
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Sacom was responsible for the "Novel Ware" series of adventure games that were highly influential in the genre of visual novels. The company was a member of DOG (Disk Original Group), a coalition of companies led by Square that produced games for the Famicom Disk System [http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/システムサコム], and a similar group called Super Software Team, made up of several computer game makers. [http://ameblo.jp/koorogiyousyoku/entry-11723886121.html] It was also involved with Scap Trust, a joint venture with seven other software companies. [http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/スキャップトラスト]
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System Sacom was responsible for the "Novel Ware" series of adventure games that influenced the sound novel and visual novel genres. Outside of Japan, the company is remembered for its interactive movie games such as ''Mansion of Hidden Souls'' and ''Lunacy''. It was also involved with the research and development of artificial intelligence and knowledge information processing systems [https://web.archive.org/web/19980623222146/http://www.sacom.co.jp/aboutus/aboutus_t.html], and operated Sacom Multimedia Studio in Shin-Yokohama [http://www.dhands.co.jp/about-greeting/] [https://web.archive.org/web/19980623222146/http://www.sacom.co.jp/aboutus/aboutus_t.html], which provided motion capture, movie conversion/digitizing, and audio recording services. [https://web.archive.org/web/19991008000124/http://www.sacom.co.jp:80/studio/motion_t.html]
  
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Sacom's business software division broke away and became [[System Sacom Business]] (later SSB) in 1990. In 1998, Masaharu Inoue started what is now [http://www.ivy-arts.com/ Ivy-Arts] (originally Media Jungle, then Jungle [http://review-site.net/dt/index.php/%E3%81%97#.E3.82.B8.E3.83.A3.E3.83.B3.E3.82.B0.E3.83.AB]). Toshio Shimizu, who started up Sacom Multimedia Studio, started a company called Digital Hands that same year. [http://www.dhands.co.jp/about-greeting/]
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In 2019, D4 Enterprise, the company behind the Project EGG retro game service, announced it had acquired System Sacom's back catalog of game titles, along with the back catalogs of several other companies. [http://www.d4e.co.jp/20190304/2946]
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Sacom was a member of DOG (Disk Original Group), a coalition of companies led by Square that produced games for the Famicom Disk System [http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/システムサコム], and a similar group called Super Software Team, made up of several computer game makers. [http://ameblo.jp/koorogiyousyoku/entry-11723886121.html] It was also involved with Scap Trust, a joint venture with seven other software companies. [http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/スキャップトラスト]
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Yukio Horimoto, creator of ''Märchen Veil'', started [[Infinity]] in 1986. Sacom's business software division broke away and became [[System Sacom Business]] (later SSB) in 1990. In 1998, Masaharu Inoue founded what is now [[Ivy-Arts]] (originally Media Jungle, then Jungle [http://review-site.net/dt/index.php/%E3%81%97#.E3.82.B8.E3.83.A3.E3.83.B3.E3.82.B0.E3.83.AB]). ''Umihara Kawase'' creator Kiyoshi Sakai and character designer Toshinobu Kondo were former Sacom employees.
  
 
'''[[About:Research Methods|Research Methods]]:''' Actual mentions, online resources, shared staff
 
'''[[About:Research Methods|Research Methods]]:''' Actual mentions, online resources, shared staff
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*''Xenon 2: Megablast'' (JP Publisher: Epic)
 
*''Xenon 2: Megablast'' (JP Publisher: Epic)
 
*''Zone'' (JP Publisher: System Sacom)
 
*''Zone'' (JP Publisher: System Sacom)
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===PC Engine CD/TurboGrafx-CD===
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*''Yami no Ketsuzoku: Harukanaru Kioku'' (scenario, music) (JP Publisher: [[Naxat]])
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:<small>Programming, Graphics: [[Spiel]]; Some Graphics: [[Winds]]</small>
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===Pippin===
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*''Hitotsuya Futatsu: Itsutsuya Kaidan'' (unreleased) (System Sacom)
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:<small>?: Group TAC</small>
  
 
===PlayStation===
 
===PlayStation===
 
*''Are! mo Kore? mo Momotarou: Nihon Tararebanashi Tour'' (JP Publisher: System Sacom)
 
*''Are! mo Kore? mo Momotarou: Nihon Tararebanashi Tour'' (JP Publisher: System Sacom)
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:<small>?: Group TAC</small>
 
*''Astronōka'' (programming, sound) (JP Publisher: Enix)
 
*''Astronōka'' (programming, sound) (JP Publisher: Enix)
 
*''Eurasia Express Satsujin Jiken'' (JP Publisher: Enix)
 
*''Eurasia Express Satsujin Jiken'' (JP Publisher: Enix)
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*''Gaball Screen'' (programming, graphics) (JP Publisher: Antinos Records) [http://web.archive.org/web/20160629210453/http://www.buckhorn.jp/kazuno-prof.html] [https://twitter.com/Battlehork/status/762427348813619200]
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*''Gaball Screen'' (programming, graphics) (JP Publisher: Antinos Records) [https://web.archive.org/web/20160629210453/http://www.buckhorn.jp/kazuno-prof.html] [https://web.archive.org/web/20200328224424/https://twitter.com/Battlehork/status/762427348813619200]
 
*''Great Hits'' (co-developer) (JP Publisher: Enix)
 
*''Great Hits'' (co-developer) (JP Publisher: Enix)
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*''Hitotsuya Futatsu: Itsutsuya Kaidan'' (unreleased) (System Sacom)
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:<small>?: Group TAC</small>
 
*''Iblard: Laputa no Kaeru Machi'' (JP Publisher: System Sacom)
 
*''Iblard: Laputa no Kaeru Machi'' (JP Publisher: System Sacom)
 
*''Jikuu Tantei DD: Maboroshi no Lorelei'' (JP Publisher: ASCII)
 
*''Jikuu Tantei DD: Maboroshi no Lorelei'' (JP Publisher: ASCII)
 
*''Jikuu Tantei DD 2: Hangyaku no Apsalar'' (JP Publisher: ASCII)
 
*''Jikuu Tantei DD 2: Hangyaku no Apsalar'' (JP Publisher: ASCII)
 
:<small>Some Program, Some Graphics: [[Highwaystar]]; Sound: Reeb</small>
 
:<small>Some Program, Some Graphics: [[Highwaystar]]; Sound: Reeb</small>
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*''Kuru no Juusan'' (JP Publisher: Tonkin House)
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*''Kuro no Juusan'' (JP Publisher: Tonkin House)
 
*''R?MJ: The Mystery Hospital'' (programming) (JP Publisher: Bandai)
 
*''R?MJ: The Mystery Hospital'' (programming) (JP Publisher: Bandai)
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:<small>Sound: Light Link Music</small>
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:<small>CG: VSL; Sound: Light Link Music</small>
 
*''Running High'' (JP Publisher: System Sacom)
 
*''Running High'' (JP Publisher: System Sacom)
 
*''Thoroughbred Breeder II Plus'' (JP Publisher: Hect) [http://raido.moe/staff/ps1/ps1_thoroughbred_breeder_2_plus.html]
 
*''Thoroughbred Breeder II Plus'' (JP Publisher: Hect) [http://raido.moe/staff/ps1/ps1_thoroughbred_breeder_2_plus.html]
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===Saturn===
 
===Saturn===
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*''Deep Fear'' (co-developer) (JP/EU Publisher: Sega) [https://jp.linkedin.com/pub/teku-kobayashi/5a/82/aa1]
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*''Deep Fear'' (JP/EU Publisher: Sega) [https://jp.linkedin.com/pub/teku-kobayashi/5a/82/aa1]
 
*''Fake Down'' (unreleased)
 
*''Fake Down'' (unreleased)
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*''Gale Racer'' (JP Publisher: Sega) [https://www.lancers.jp/profile/cafe486jp/portfolio_popup/170278]
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*''[[Blog:Gale Racer (Saturn)|Gale Racer]]'' (JP Publisher: Sega)
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*''Gekkamugentan: Torico'' / ''Lunacy'' / ''Torico'' (JP/EU Publisher: Sega; US Publisher: Atlus)
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*''Gekka Mugentan Torico'' / ''Lunacy'' / ''Torico'' (JP/EU Publisher: Sega; US Publisher: Atlus)
 
*''Jikuu Tantei DD: Maboroshi no Lorelei'' (JP Publisher: ASCII)
 
*''Jikuu Tantei DD: Maboroshi no Lorelei'' (JP Publisher: ASCII)
 
*''Lulu'' (direction, programming, some graphics) (JP Publisher: Sega)
 
*''Lulu'' (direction, programming, some graphics) (JP Publisher: Sega)
 
*''R?MJ: The Mystery Hospital'' (programming) (JP Publisher: Bandai)
 
*''R?MJ: The Mystery Hospital'' (programming) (JP Publisher: Bandai)
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:<small>Sound: Light Link Music</small>
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:<small>CG: VSL; Sound: Light Link Music</small>
 
*''Rampo'' (JP Publisher: Sega) [https://jp.linkedin.com/in/kouichi-suzuki-4bab783a]
 
*''Rampo'' (JP Publisher: Sega) [https://jp.linkedin.com/in/kouichi-suzuki-4bab783a]
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*''Shinsetsu Yumemi Yakata: Tobira no Oku ni Dareka ga...'' / ''The Mansion of Hidden Souls'' (JP/US/EU Publisher: Sega)
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*''Shinsetsu Yumemiyakata: Tobira no Oku ni Dare ka ga...'' / ''The Mansion of Hidden Souls'' (JP/US/EU Publisher: Sega)
  
 
===Sharp X1===
 
===Sharp X1===
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===Super Famicom/Super NES===
 
===Super Famicom/Super NES===
 
*''Gekitotsu Dangan Jidousha Kessen: Battle Mobile'' (JP Publisher: System Sacom)
 
*''Gekitotsu Dangan Jidousha Kessen: Battle Mobile'' (JP Publisher: System Sacom)
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:<small>Sound Driver: Smash?</small>
 
*''Jerry Boy'' / ''SmartBall'' (co-developed with Game Freak) (JP Publisher: Epic; US Publisher: Sony Imagesoft)
 
*''Jerry Boy'' / ''SmartBall'' (co-developed with Game Freak) (JP Publisher: Epic; US Publisher: Sony Imagesoft)
 
*''Wondrous Magic'' (JP Publisher: ASCII)
 
*''Wondrous Magic'' (JP Publisher: ASCII)
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:<small>Started out as a PlayStation (Super Famicom/Super NES CD-ROM) game.</small>
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:<small>Main Programming, Sound Programming: Smash?; Some Graphics: Ocarina System; ?: Zen Corporation</small>
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:<small>Started out as a PlayStation (Super Famicom/Super NES CD-ROM) game</small>
  
 
===Windows===
 
===Windows===
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==Links==
 
==Links==
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*[http://web.archive.org/web/20091003233515/http://www.gpara.com/contents/creator/bn_252.php Gpara.com interview with Mark Flint (formerly of Sacom)] (Japanese)
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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20091003233515/http://www.gpara.com/contents/creator/bn_252.php Gpara.com interview with Mark Flint (formerly of Sacom)] (Japanese)
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*[http://web.archive.org/web/20131025085535/http://www.gpara.com/contents/creator/bn_251.php Gpara.com interview with Masaharu Inoue (formerly of Sacom)] (Japanese)
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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20131025085535/http://www.gpara.com/contents/creator/bn_251.php Gpara.com interview with Masaharu Inoue (formerly of Sacom)] (Japanese)
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*[http://www.sacom.co.jp/ Official website] (Japanese)
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*[https://www.sacom.co.jp/ Official website] (Japanese)
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*[http://review-site.net/dt/index.php/し#.E3.82.B7.E3.82.B9.E3.83.86.E3.83.A0.E3.82.B5.E3.82.B3.E3.83.A0.EF.BC.88SYSTEM_SACOM.EF.BC.89 Developer Table entry] (Japanese)
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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20100612205425/http://review-site.net/dt/index.php/%E3%81%97#.E3.82.B7.E3.82.B9.E3.83.86.E3.83.A0.E3.82.B5.E3.82.B3.E3.83.A0.EF.BC.88SYSTEM_SACOM.EF.BC.89 Developer Table entry (Internet Archive Wayback Machine)] (Japanese)
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*[https://hipparchus.booth.pm/items/874445 E-book written by former employee Hiroshi Ogino about his time at the company] (Japanese)
  
 
[[Category:Companies]]
 
[[Category:Companies]]

Latest revision as of 06:25, 6 May 2024

Former System Sacom logo

Established on December 2, 1981, System Sacom Corp. (株式会社システムサコム) was a computer hardware and software company in Tokyo. [1] It withdrew from the game industry in 1998 [2] and focused on its hardware business. (System Sacom Corp. later became [or spun off] System Sacom Sales Corp. [株式会社システムサコム販売], which was renamed System Sacom Industry Corp. [システムサコム工業株式会社] in 2010.)

System Sacom was responsible for the "Novel Ware" series of adventure games that influenced the sound novel and visual novel genres. Outside of Japan, the company is remembered for its interactive movie games such as Mansion of Hidden Souls and Lunacy. It was also involved with the research and development of artificial intelligence and knowledge information processing systems [3], and operated Sacom Multimedia Studio in Shin-Yokohama [4] [5], which provided motion capture, movie conversion/digitizing, and audio recording services. [6]

In 2019, D4 Enterprise, the company behind the Project EGG retro game service, announced it had acquired System Sacom's back catalog of game titles, along with the back catalogs of several other companies. [7]

Sacom was a member of DOG (Disk Original Group), a coalition of companies led by Square that produced games for the Famicom Disk System [8], and a similar group called Super Software Team, made up of several computer game makers. [9] It was also involved with Scap Trust, a joint venture with seven other software companies. [10]

Yukio Horimoto, creator of Märchen Veil, started Infinity in 1986. Sacom's business software division broke away and became System Sacom Business (later SSB) in 1990. In 1998, Masaharu Inoue founded what is now Ivy-Arts (originally Media Jungle, then Jungle [11]). Umihara Kawase creator Kiyoshi Sakai and character designer Toshinobu Kondo were former Sacom employees.

Research Methods: Actual mentions, online resources, shared staff

3DO

  • Virtual Quest: Pharaoh no Fuuin / Seal of the Pharaoh (JP Publisher: Ask Kodansha; US Publisher: Panasonic)
  • Yamada Kamachi Bijutsukan (JP Publisher: TV Asahi)

Dreamcast

  • Blue Stinger (some 3D animation design) (JP Publisher: Sega; US/EU Publisher: Activision)

Famicom Disk System

  • Fire Rock (JP Publisher: Use)
  • Märchen Veil (JP Publisher: Sunsoft)
  • Moon Ball Magic (JP Publisher: DOG)

FM Towns

  • 38000 Kilo no Kokuu (JP Publisher: System Sacom)
  • Evolution (JP Publisher: System Sacom)
  • Yami no Ketsuzoku Special (JP Publisher: System Sacom)

FM-7

  • Dome (JP Publisher: System Sacom)
  • Märchen Veil I (JP Publisher: System Sacom) /ALU

Macintosh

  • Darlun no Kimamana Tabi (JP Publisher: System Sacom)

Mega CD/Sega CD

  • Yumemi Yakata no Monogatari / Mansion of Hidden Souls / Yumemi Mystery Mansion (JP/EU Publisher: Sega; US Publisher: Vic Tokai)

Mega Drive/Genesis

  • Grand Slam / Jennifer Capriati Tennis / Grandslam: The Tennis Tournament (JP Publisher: Telenet; US Publisher: Renovation; EU Publisher: Sega)

MSX

  • Märchen Veil I (JP Publisher: System Sacom) /ALU

MSX2

  • Dome (JP Publisher: System Sacom)
  • Yuurei-kun (JP Publisher: System Sacom)
  • Märchen Veil I (JP Publisher: System Sacom) /ALU

MZ-2500

  • Dome (JP Publisher: System Sacom)
  • Märchen Veil I (JP Publisher: System Sacom) /ALU

PC-88

  • Chátty (JP Publisher: System Sacom)
  • Dome (JP Publisher: System Sacom)
  • Märchen Veil I (JP Publisher: System Sacom) /ALU
  • Providence (JP Publisher: System Sacom)
  • Valna (JP Publisher: System Sacom)

PC-8801 mk II SR

  • Märchen Veil I (JP Publisher: System Sacom) /ALU

PC-98

  • 38000 Kilo no Kokuu (JP Publisher: System Sacom)
  • Brown's Run (JP Publisher: System Sacom) /ALU
  • Dome (JP Publisher: System Sacom)
  • Highway Star (JP Publisher: System Sacom)
  • Märchen Veil I (JP Publisher: System Sacom) /ALU
  • Märchen Veil II (JP Publisher: System Sacom) /ALU
  • Michiyo Dreamy: The Quiz Master (JP Publisher: System Sacom)
  • Moon Ball (JP Publisher: System Sacom) /ALU
  • Power Singer: Ellance Saga #1 (JP Publisher: System Sacom)
  • Soft de Hard na Monogatari (JP Publisher: System Sacom)
  • Soft de Hard na Monogatari 2 (JP Publisher: System Sacom)
  • Valiant (JP Publisher: System Sacom) /ALU
  • Woom (JP Publisher: System Sacom) /ALU
  • Xenon 2: Megablast (JP Publisher: Epic)
  • Zone (JP Publisher: System Sacom)

PC Engine CD/TurboGrafx-CD

  • Yami no Ketsuzoku: Harukanaru Kioku (scenario, music) (JP Publisher: Naxat)
Programming, Graphics: Spiel; Some Graphics: Winds

Pippin

  • Hitotsuya Futatsu: Itsutsuya Kaidan (unreleased) (System Sacom)
?: Group TAC

PlayStation

  • Are! mo Kore? mo Momotarou: Nihon Tararebanashi Tour (JP Publisher: System Sacom)
?: Group TAC
  • Astronōka (programming, sound) (JP Publisher: Enix)
  • Eurasia Express Satsujin Jiken (JP Publisher: Enix)
  • Gaball Screen (programming, graphics) (JP Publisher: Antinos Records) [12] [13]
  • Great Hits (co-developer) (JP Publisher: Enix)
  • Hitotsuya Futatsu: Itsutsuya Kaidan (unreleased) (System Sacom)
?: Group TAC
  • Iblard: Laputa no Kaeru Machi (JP Publisher: System Sacom)
  • Jikuu Tantei DD: Maboroshi no Lorelei (JP Publisher: ASCII)
  • Jikuu Tantei DD 2: Hangyaku no Apsalar (JP Publisher: ASCII)
Some Program, Some Graphics: Highwaystar; Sound: Reeb
  • Kuro no Juusan (JP Publisher: Tonkin House)
  • R?MJ: The Mystery Hospital (programming) (JP Publisher: Bandai)
CG: VSL; Sound: Light Link Music
  • Running High (JP Publisher: System Sacom)
  • Thoroughbred Breeder II Plus (JP Publisher: Hect) [14]

PlayStation (Super Famicom/Super NES CD-ROM)

  • Fortezza (unreleased) (Epic)

Saturn

  • Deep Fear (JP/EU Publisher: Sega) [15]
  • Fake Down (unreleased)
  • Gale Racer (JP Publisher: Sega)
  • Gekka Mugentan Torico / Lunacy / Torico (JP/EU Publisher: Sega; US Publisher: Atlus)
  • Jikuu Tantei DD: Maboroshi no Lorelei (JP Publisher: ASCII)
  • Lulu (direction, programming, some graphics) (JP Publisher: Sega)
  • R?MJ: The Mystery Hospital (programming) (JP Publisher: Bandai)
CG: VSL; Sound: Light Link Music
  • Rampo (JP Publisher: Sega) [16]
  • Shinsetsu Yumemiyakata: Tobira no Oku ni Dare ka ga... / The Mansion of Hidden Souls (JP/US/EU Publisher: Sega)

Sharp X1

  • Dome (JP Publisher: System Sacom)
  • Euphory (JP Publisher: System Sacom)
  • Märchen Veil I (JP Publisher: System Sacom) /ALU

Super Famicom/Super NES

  • Gekitotsu Dangan Jidousha Kessen: Battle Mobile (JP Publisher: System Sacom)
Sound Driver: Smash?
  • Jerry Boy / SmartBall (co-developed with Game Freak) (JP Publisher: Epic; US Publisher: Sony Imagesoft)
  • Wondrous Magic (JP Publisher: ASCII)
Main Programming, Sound Programming: Smash?; Some Graphics: Ocarina System; ?: Zen Corporation
Started out as a PlayStation (Super Famicom/Super NES CD-ROM) game

Windows

  • Darlun no Kimamana Tabi (JP Publisher: System Sacom)

X68000

  • 38-man Kilo no Kokuu (JP Publisher: System Sacom)
  • 38-man Kilo no Kokuu: CM-64-ban (JP Publisher: System Sacom)
  • Atomic Robo Kid (JP Publisher: System Sacom)
  • Dome (JP Publisher: System Sacom)
  • Gemini Wing (JP Publisher: System Sacom)
  • Soft de Hard na Monogatari (JP Publisher: System Sacom)
  • Soft de Hard na Monogatari 2 (JP Publisher: System Sacom)
  • Xenon 2: Megablast (JP Publisher: Epic)
  • Yami no Ketsuzoku (JP Publisher: System Sacom)
  • Yami no Ketsuzoku: Kanketsu-hen (JP Publisher: System Sacom)

Links

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