Spike Chunsoft
Native name | [株式会社スパイク・チュンソフト] Error: {{Lang}}: unrecognized language code: jp (help) |
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Romanized name | Kabushikigaisha Supaiku Chunsofuto |
Formerly | Chunsoft (1984–2012) |
Company type | Subsidiary |
Industry | Video game industry |
Founded | April 9, 1984[1] |
Headquarters | , |
Key people | Koichi Nakamura (Chairman and CEO) Mitsutoshi Sakurai (President and CEO) |
Products |
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Number of employees | 200[2] (2016) |
Parent | Dwango |
Website | spike-chunsoft.co.jp |
Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd. (Japanese: 株式会社スパイク・チュンソフト, Hepburn: Kabushikigaisha Supaiku Chunsofuto) is a Japanese video game development and localization company specializing in role-playing video game and visual novels. The company was founded in 1984 as Chunsoft Co., Ltd and merged with Spike in 2012. It is owned by Dwango.[3]
History
The company Chunsoft was founded by Koichi Nakamura, a video game designer and programmer who had clasped with Enix. The "Chun" in the company name, is from the company founder name's first kanji Naka (中), meanwhile Naka is read as "Chun" in Japanese Mahjong.[4] Spike Chunsoft is the creator of the Mystery Dungeon series, the first five installments of the Dragon Quest series of role-playing video games, and the graphic adventure game series Danganronpa and Zero Escape.
In 2017, Spike Chunsoft established a North American subsidiary based in Long Beach, California to carry out future localization of its games in addition to projects developed by 5pb games parent company Mages under a newly formed partnership.[5]
Titles
Developed games
Developed as Chunsoft
- The Portopia Serial Murder Case (1983)
- Dragon Quest (1986)
- Dragon Quest II (1987)
- Dragon Quest III (1988)
- Dragon Quest IV (1990)
- Famicom Jump II: Saikyō no Shichinin (1991)
- Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride (1992)
- Otogirisō (1992)
- Torneko's Great Adventure: Mystery Dungeon (1993)
- Kamaitachi no Yoru Advance (1994)
- Banshee's Last Cry (1994)
- Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer (1995)
- Machi: Unmei no Kousaten (1998)
- Torneko: The Last Hope (1999)
- Shiren the Wanderer 2 (2000)
- Shiren the Wanderer GB2 (2001)
- Dragon Quest Characters: Torneko's Great Adventure 2 - Mystery Dungeon (Torneko: The Last Hope) (2001)
- Dragon Quest Characters: Torneko no Daibōken 2 (2002)
- Dragon Quest Characters: Torneko's Great Adventure 3: Mystery Dungeon (2004)
- The Nightmare of Druaga: Fushigino Dungeon (2004)
- Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team (2005)
- Homeland (2005)
- Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer (2005)
- Shiren the Wanderer DS2 (2006)
- Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team (2005)
- Imabikisō (2007)
- 428: Shibuya Scramble (2007)
- Shiren the Wanderer (2008)
- Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Explorers of Darkness (2009)
- Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Keep Going! Blazing Adventure Squad!, Let's Go! Stormy Adventure Squad!, and Go For It! Light Adventure Squad! (2009)
- Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors (2009)
- Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate (2010)
- Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky (2010)
- Kowa-Oto (2010)
- Shiren the Wanderer 4: The Eye of God and the Devil's Navel (2010)
- Zombie Daisuki (2011)
- Wii Play: Motion (2011)
- Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward (2012)
- Jump Force (will be released February 2019)
Developed as Spike Chunsoft
- Conception: Ore no Kodomo o Undekure! (PlayStation Portable, Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, 2012) (only published)
- Kenka Banchō Bros. Tokyo Battle Royale (PlayStation Portable, 2012)
- Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair (PlayStation Portable, PlayStation Vita, Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, 2012)
- Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc (Android, iOS, PlayStation Vita, Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, 2012)
- Shiren the Wanderer 4 Plus: The Eye of God and the Devil's Navel (Nintendo DS, PlayStation Portable, 2012)
- Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity (Nintendo 3DS, 2012)
- Conception II: Children of the Seven Stars (Nintendo 3DS, PlayStation Vita, Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, 2013)
- StreetPass Battle / Warrior's Way (Nintendo 3DS, 2013)
- Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors (iOS, 2013)
- Attack on Titan: Humanity in Chains (Nintendo 3DS, 2013)
- J-Stars Victory VS (PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, 2014)
- Fossil Fighters: Frontier (Nintendo 3DS, 2014)
- Sekai Seifuku: Costume Fes. (PlayStation Vita, 2014)
- Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls (PlayStation Vita, Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, 2014)
- Danganronpa: Unlimited Battle (iOS, Android, 2015)
- Kenka Bancho 6: Soul & Blood (Nintendo 3DS, 2015)[6]
- Ukiyo no Shishi (PlayStation 3, 2015)
- Ukiyo no Roushi (PlayStation Vita, 2015)
- Etrian Mystery Dungeon (Nintendo 3DS, 2015)
- Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate (PlayStation Vita, 2015)
- J-Stars Victory VS+ (PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, 2015)
- Mystery Chronicle: One Way Heroics (PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Microsoft Windows, 2015)
- Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon (Nintendo 3DS, 2015)[7]
- Exist Archive: The Other Side of the Sky (co-developed with Tri-Ace) (PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, 2015)[8]
- Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games (Nintendo 3DS, 2016)
- One Piece: Burning Blood (PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation Vita, Microsoft Windows, 2016)[9]
- Zero Time Dilemma (Nintendo 3DS, PlayStation Vita, Microsoft Windows, 2016)[10]
- Fire Pro Wrestling World (Microsoft Windows, PS4, 2017)[11]
- Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony (PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Microsoft Windows, 2017)[12]
- Seikimatsu Days: Our Era's End (Android, iOS, 2018)[13]
- Zanki Zero: Last Beginning (Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita)[14]
- AI: The Somnium Files (Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4)[15]
Published games
Games localized for Japanese release
- Hotline Miami (2012)
- The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings (2012)
- Saints Row: The Third (2012)
- Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning (2012)
- Dead Island: Riptide (2013)
- Metro: Last Light (2013)
- Terraria (2013)
- Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion (2013)
- Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two (2013)
- CastleStorm (2015)
- Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number (2015)
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (2015)
- Wasteland 2: Director's Cut (2015)
- Crypt of the NecroDancer (2016)
Games localized for Western release
- Steins;Gate (Microsoft Windows, 2018)[16]
- Steins;Gate 0 (Microsoft Windows, 2018)[17]
- 8-bit ADV Steins;Gate (Nintendo Switch, 2019)[18]
- Steins;Gate Elite (Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, 2019)[18]
- Steins;Gate: Linear Bounded Phenogram (Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, 2019)[18]
- 428: Shibuya Scramble (Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, 2018)[19]
- PixelJunk Monsters 2 (Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, 2018)[20]
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