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*''Chuugoku Janshi Story: Tonpuu'' (JP Publisher: Natsume)
 
*''Chuugoku Janshi Story: Tonpuu'' (JP Publisher: Natsume)
 
*''Super Rugby'' (JP Publisher: TSS)
 
*''Super Rugby'' (JP Publisher: TSS)
 
The following games share a font with ''Ankoku Shinwa'' and ''Super Rugby'':
 
*<div style="color:red">''Elysion'' (JP Publisher: Tokyo Shoseki)</div>
 
*<div style="color:red">''Paris-Dakar Rally Special'' (JP Publisher: CBS/Sony Group)</div>
 
*<div style="color:red">''Transformers: The Head Masters'' [FDS] (JP Publisher: Takara)</div>
 
 
''Taiyou no Shinden: Aztec II / Tombs & Treasures'' uses this same font, but nobody from Zap is credited.
 
  
 
===Mark III/Master System===
 
===Mark III/Master System===
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===PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16===
 
===PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16===
 
*''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>
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*<div style="color:red">''Burning Angels'' (JP Publisher: Naxat)</div>
 
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*<div style="color:red">''Makai Prince Dorabocchan'' (JP Publisher: Naxat)</div>
==As Way Limit?==
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*<div style="color:red">''Dead Moon: Gessekai no Akumu'' / ''Dead Moon'' (JP Publisher: TSS; US Publisher: NEC Home Electronics)</div>
===MSX===
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*<div style="color:red">''High Way Star'' (JP Publisher: ASCII)</div>
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*<div style="color:red">''Midnight Building'' (JP Publisher: ASCII)</div>
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[[Category:Companies]]
 
[[Category:Companies]]

Revision as of 13:54, 1 May 2013

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]

Former 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)

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)
  • Burning Angels (JP Publisher: Naxat)
  • Makai Prince Dorabocchan (JP Publisher: Naxat)
  • Dead Moon: Gessekai no Akumu / Dead Moon (JP Publisher: TSS; US Publisher: NEC Home Electronics)