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The current president of [[Nintendo]], [[Satoru Iwata]], was a former president of HAL. Other important figures include [[Masahiro Sakurai]], who created the ''Kirby'' character and the ''Super Smash Bros.''franchise and now leads his own company [[Sora Ltd.]].
The current president of [[Nintendo]], [[Satoru Iwata]], was a former president of HAL. Other important figures include [[Masahiro Sakurai]], who created the ''Kirby'' character and the ''Super Smash Bros.''franchise and now leads his own company [[Sora Ltd.]].
The HAL Laboratory icon at the bottom of the [[Super Smash Bros. Brawl]] page indicates that HAL is contributing to the game in some form.
==List of games==
==List of games==
===[[Apple II]]===
===[[Apple II]]===

Revision as of 05:30, 2 January 2008

HAL Laboratory, Inc.
Company typePrivate
IndustryVideo game industry
FoundedFebruary 21, 1980[1]
HeadquartersChiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
Key people
Satoru Iwata (former president)
ProductsVideo games
Number of employees
110
Websitehttp://www.hallab.co.jp/

HAL Laboratory, Inc. (株式会社ハル研究所, Kabushikigaisha Haru Kenkyūjo) is a Japanese video game developer that was founded on February 21, 1980. Its name comes from the HAL 9000 computer in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey.[2] The company is most famous for its character Kirby, the protagonist of the eponymous game series, as well as the Super Smash Bros. series. It is a second-party development studio of Nintendo.

HAL Laboratory started off making games for the MSX system and the Commodore 64.[3] during the early '80s, some of their games since the 1986 Famicom Disk System game Gall Force (based on the anime series of the same name) have been released also on Nintendo systems.

In many of its games during the early to mid-'90s it used the name HALKEN (derived from their literal Japanese name "HAL KENkyūjo") as well as HAL Laboratory. Some of its early titles were also released as HAL America, a North American subsidiary of the company.

The current president of Nintendo, Satoru Iwata, was a former president of HAL. Other important figures include Masahiro Sakurai, who created the Kirby character and the Super Smash Bros.franchise and now leads his own company Sora Ltd..

List of games

Apple II

  • Taxman
  • Taxman 2

MSX

MSX2

NES

SNES

Nintendo 64

Nintendo GameCube

Game Boy

Game Boy Color

Game Boy Advance

Nintendo DS

Wii

References

  1. ^ HAL Laboratory, Inc. "Company". Retrieved 9-17-07. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  2. ^ http://uk.cube.ign.com/articles/595/595089p1.html
  3. ^ http://www.commodore.ca/history/people/michael_tomczyk.htm
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