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− | '''Zap''' (株式会社ザップ) was a game | + | '''Zap Corporation''' (株式会社ザップ) was a game company started by entrepreneur Yuichiro Itakura (板倉雄一郎) in February 1984 [http://www.yuichiro-itakura.com/partner/prof_itakura.html] at the age of 19. [http://gdri.smspower.org/wiki/index.php/Interview:Hitoshi_Akashi] It may have had its roots in a company called Way Limit. [http://www.generation-msx.nl/msxdb/softwareinfo/258] |
Notable employees include Hitoshi Akashi (赤司仁) of [[Beyond Interactive]] and Sony Computer Entertainment producer Takeshi Kajii (梶井健) (''Demon's Souls'' [PS3]). [http://wiki.livedoor.jp/demons_souls/d/%B3%E1%B0%E6%B7%F2] | Notable employees include Hitoshi Akashi (赤司仁) of [[Beyond Interactive]] and Sony Computer Entertainment producer Takeshi Kajii (梶井健) (''Demon's Souls'' [PS3]). [http://wiki.livedoor.jp/demons_souls/d/%B3%E1%B0%E6%B7%F2] | ||
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*''Summer Games / Jogos Olympícos'' (under subcontract with Kaga Electronics?) (EU Publisher: Sega; BR Publisher: Tec Toy) | *''Summer Games / Jogos Olympícos'' (under subcontract with Kaga Electronics?) (EU Publisher: Sega; BR Publisher: Tec Toy) | ||
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*''Bomber King'' (JP Publisher: Hudson) | *''Bomber King'' (JP Publisher: Hudson) | ||
*''Cosmo Explorer'' (JP Publisher: Sony) | *''Cosmo Explorer'' (JP Publisher: Sony) | ||
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*''Barunba'' (JP Publisher: Namco) | *''Barunba'' (JP Publisher: Namco) | ||
*<div style="color:red">''Dead Moon: Gessekai no Akumu / Dead Moon'' (JP Publisher: TSS; US Publisher: NEC Home Electronics)</div> | *<div style="color:red">''Dead Moon: Gessekai no Akumu / Dead Moon'' (JP Publisher: TSS; US Publisher: NEC Home Electronics)</div> | ||
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+ | ==As Way Limit?== | ||
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+ | *<div style="color:red">''High Way Star'' (JP Publisher: ASCII)</div> | ||
+ | *<div style="color:red">''Midnight Building'' (JP Publisher: ASCII)</div> | ||
[[Category:Companies]] | [[Category:Companies]] |
Revision as of 14:01, 21 August 2011
Zap Corporation (株式会社ザップ) was a game company started by entrepreneur Yuichiro Itakura (板倉雄一郎) in February 1984 [1] at the age of 19. [2] It may have had its roots in a company called Way Limit. [3]
Notable employees include Hitoshi Akashi (赤司仁) of Beyond Interactive and Sony Computer Entertainment producer Takeshi Kajii (梶井健) (Demon's Souls [PS3]). [4]
Research Methods: Actual mentions, interviews, shared staff
Related Interviews: Hitoshi Akashi
Famicom/NES
- Ankoku Shinwa: Yamato Takeru Densetsu (JP Publisher: Tokyo Shoseki)
- Programming: Another
- Chuugoku Janshi Story: Tonpuu (JP Publisher: Natsume)
- Super Rugby (JP Publisher: TSS)
The following games share a font with Ankoku Shinwa and Super Rugby:
- Elysion (JP Publisher: Tokyo Shoseki)
- Paris-Dakar Rally Special (JP Publisher: CBS/Sony Group)
- Transformers: The Head Masters [FDS] (JP Publisher: Takara)
Taiyou no Shinden: Aztec II / Tombs & Treasures uses this same font, but nobody from Zap is credited.
Mark III/Master System
- Summer Games / Jogos Olympícos (under subcontract with Kaga Electronics?) (EU Publisher: Sega; BR Publisher: Tec Toy)
MSX
- Bomber King (JP Publisher: Hudson)
- Cosmo Explorer (JP Publisher: Sony)
- Fairy (JP Publisher: Zap)
- Funky Mouse (JP Publisher: Sony)
- Glider (JP Publisher: Zap)
- Manes (JP Publisher: Zap)
- Midnight Brothers (JP Publisher: Sony)
- Payload (JP Publisher: Sony)
- Pineapplin (JP Publisher: Zap)
- Raid on Bungeling Bay (JP Publisher: Sony)
MSX2
- Ankoku Shinwa: Yamato Takeru Densetsu (JP Publisher: Tokyo Shoseki)
- Barunba (JP Publisher: Namco)
- Ninja (JP Publisher: Bothtec)
- Taiyou no Shinden: Aztec II (JP Publisher: Tokyo Shoseki)
PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16
- Barunba (JP Publisher: Namco)
- Dead Moon: Gessekai no Akumu / Dead Moon (JP Publisher: TSS; US Publisher: NEC Home Electronics)
As Way Limit?
MSX
- High Way Star (JP Publisher: ASCII)
- Midnight Building (JP Publisher: ASCII)