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[[Image:Bears.png|right|Bear's logo]]
 
[[Image:Bears.png|right|Bear's logo]]
Notable staffers: Yasuhide Sakakura, Masahiro Yoshihara, Yoshihisa Kishimoto, Makoto Higa
 
  
The names "Bear's" and "Bear's Corporation" turn up in both the NES and MSX versions of "Pachi Com," the earliest game we've found by this group (1985). We're not sure if Bear's was a company bought out by Shouei System, just a pseudonym for Shouei, or a company Shouei contracted. We previously thought Bear's was Shouei's former name, but according to Shouei System's old website, Shouei changed its name to Shouei System in 1982.
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Software company that published two PC-88 games. The "Bear's" name also turns up in the ROMs of both the MSX and Famicom versions of Pachi Com. A significant portion of the staff that worked on Pachi Com and Skyscraper (PC-88) turn up on the Toei Animation-published FC/NES games listed below, whose development was contracted to Shouei System. There are two possibilities as we see it: either Shouei System subcontracted to Bear's, or Shouei System bought/absorbed Bear's.
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'''[[Research Methods]]:''' Actual mentions, [http://gdri.smspower.org/credits/bears.txt ROM text], [http://gdri.smspower.org/credits/bears.txt shared credits]
  
 
===Famicom/NES===
 
===Famicom/NES===
*''Baltron'' (JP Publisher: Toei Animation)
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*''Baltron'' (as or under subcontract with Shouei System) (JP Publisher: Toei Animation)
*''Hokuto no Ken'' (JP Publisher: Toei Animation)
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*''Hokuto no Ken'' (as or under subcontract with Shouei System) (JP Publisher: Toei Animation)
*''Hokuto no Ken 2: Seikimatsu Kyuuseishu Densetsu / Fist of the North Star'' (JP Publisher: Toei Animation; US Publisher: Taxan)
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*''Hokuto no Ken 2: Seikimatsu Kyuuseishu Densetsu / Fist of the North Star'' (as or under subcontract with Shouei System) (JP Publisher: Toei Animation; US Publisher: Taxan)
*''Hokuto no Ken 3: Shinseiki Souzou Seiken Retsuden'' (JP Publisher: Toei Animation)
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*''Hokuto no Ken 3: Shinseiki Souzou Seiken Retsuden'' (as or under subcontract with Shouei System) (JP Publisher: Toei Animation)
*''Kamen no Ninja: Akakage'' (JP Publisher: Toei Animation)
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*''Kamen no Ninja: Akakage'' (as or under subcontract with Shouei System) (JP Publisher: Toei Animation)
*''Nagagutsu o Haita Neko: Sekai Isshuu 80 Nichi Dai Bouken / Puss 'n Boots: Pero's Great Adventure'' (JP Publisher: Toei Animation; US Publisher: Electro Brain)
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*''Nagagutsu o Haita Neko: Sekai Isshuu 80 Nichi Dai Bouken / Puss 'n Boots: Pero's Great Adventure'' (as or under subcontract with Shouei System) (JP Publisher: Toei Animation; US Publisher: Electro Brain)
 
*''Pachi Com'' (JP Publisher: Toemiland)
 
*''Pachi Com'' (JP Publisher: Toemiland)
*''Sukeban Deka III'' (JP Publisher: Toei Animation)
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*''Sukeban Deka III'' (as or under subcontract with Shouei System) (JP Publisher: Toei Animation)
*''SWAT: Special Weapons and Tactics'' (JP Publisher: Toei Animation)
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*''SWAT: Special Weapons and Tactics'' (as or under subcontract with Shouei System) (JP Publisher: Toei Animation)
  
 
===MSX1===
 
===MSX1===

Revision as of 12:58, 23 June 2008

Bear's logo

Software company that published two PC-88 games. The "Bear's" name also turns up in the ROMs of both the MSX and Famicom versions of Pachi Com. A significant portion of the staff that worked on Pachi Com and Skyscraper (PC-88) turn up on the Toei Animation-published FC/NES games listed below, whose development was contracted to Shouei System. There are two possibilities as we see it: either Shouei System subcontracted to Bear's, or Shouei System bought/absorbed Bear's.

Research Methods: Actual mentions, ROM text, shared credits

Famicom/NES

  • Baltron (as or under subcontract with Shouei System) (JP Publisher: Toei Animation)
  • Hokuto no Ken (as or under subcontract with Shouei System) (JP Publisher: Toei Animation)
  • Hokuto no Ken 2: Seikimatsu Kyuuseishu Densetsu / Fist of the North Star (as or under subcontract with Shouei System) (JP Publisher: Toei Animation; US Publisher: Taxan)
  • Hokuto no Ken 3: Shinseiki Souzou Seiken Retsuden (as or under subcontract with Shouei System) (JP Publisher: Toei Animation)
  • Kamen no Ninja: Akakage (as or under subcontract with Shouei System) (JP Publisher: Toei Animation)
  • Nagagutsu o Haita Neko: Sekai Isshuu 80 Nichi Dai Bouken / Puss 'n Boots: Pero's Great Adventure (as or under subcontract with Shouei System) (JP Publisher: Toei Animation; US Publisher: Electro Brain)
  • Pachi Com (JP Publisher: Toemiland)
  • Sukeban Deka III (as or under subcontract with Shouei System) (JP Publisher: Toei Animation)
  • SWAT: Special Weapons and Tactics (as or under subcontract with Shouei System) (JP Publisher: Toei Animation)

MSX1

  • Pachi Com (JP Publisher: Toshiba EMI)

PC-88

  • Nankai no Hyouteki (JP Publisher: Bear's) [1]
  • Skyscraper (JP Publisher: Bear's) [2]