Game Freak

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GAME FREAK, Inc. (ゲームフリーク, Gēmu Furīku^?) is the Japanese video game developer behind the Pokémon series of RPGs, as well as several other games. It is a second-party developer for Nintendo.

The company was founded on April 26, 1989 by Satoshi Tajiri (田尻智, Tajiri Satoshi^?). In honor of the founder, the lead character in the Japanese version of the Pokémon TV series was named Satoshi (Ash Ketchum in the English dub).

Their most popular RPG series, Pokémon, is published by Nintendo in Japan, North America and Europe. Pokémon is formally known as Pocket Monsters (ポケットモンスター, Poketto Monsutā^?) in Japan, and the abbreviation Pokémon (ポケモン, Pokémon^?) is derived from the Japanese spelling.

Game Freak has recently released Drill Dozer, an all new game for Game Boy Advance, and released Diamond and Pearl, the versions of Pokémon for the Nintendo DS, in October 2006

Contents 1 Developed Games 1.1 Nintendo Game Boy 1.2 Nintendo Game Boy (Nintendo Game Boy Color) 1.3 Nintendo Game Boy (Nintendo Game Boy Advance) 1.4 Nintendo DS 1.5 Nintendo Family Computer/Nintendo Entertainment System 1.6 Nintendo Super Famicom/Super NES 1.7 NEC PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16 1.8 Sega Mega Drive/Sega Genesis 1.9 Sony PlayStation 2 External links

[edit] Developed Games

[edit] Nintendo Game Boy

• Pokémon Gold and Silver (ポケットモンスター～金/銀 (Pocket Monsters Kin/Gin, ポケットモンスター～金/銀^?)) (1999, Nintendo)
• Mario & Yoshi/Yoshi (ヨッシーのたまご (Yoshi no Tamago, ヨッシーのたまご^?)) (1991, Nintendo)
• Nontan to Issho! Kuru-Kuru Puzzle (ノンタンといっしょ！くるくるパズル (Nontan to Issho! Kuru-Kuru Puzzle, ノンタンといっしょ！くるくるパズル^?)) (1994, Victor Interactive)
• Pokémon Red/Green/Blue (ポケットモンスター～赤/緑/青 (Pocket Monsters Akai/Midori/Aoi, ポケットモンスター～赤/緑/青^?)) (1996, Nintendo)
• Pokémon Yellow (ポケットモンスター～ピカチュウ (Pocket Monsters Pikachu, ポケットモンスター～ピカチュウ^?)) (1998, Nintendo)

[edit] Nintendo Game Boy (Nintendo Game Boy Color)

• Pokémon Gold and Silver (ポケットモンスター～金/銀 (Pocket Monsters Kin/Gin, ポケットモンスター～金/銀^?)) (1999, Nintendo)
• Pokémon Crystal (ポケットモンスター～クリスタル (Pocket Monsters Crystal, ポケットモンスター～クリスタル^?)) (2000, Nintendo)

[edit] Nintendo Game Boy (Nintendo Game Boy Advance)

• Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire (ポケットモンスタールビー/サファイア (Pocket Monsters Ruby/Sapphire, ポケットモンスタールビー/サファイア^?)) (2002, Nintendo)
• Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen (ポケットモンスターファイアレッド/リーフグリーン (Pocket Monsters FireRed/LeafGreen, ポケットモンスターファイアレッド/リーフグリーン^?)) (2004, Nintendo)
• Pokémon Emerald (ポケットモンスターエメラルド (Pocket Monsters Emerald, ポケットモンスターエメラルド^?)) (2004, Nintendo)
• Drill Dozer (スクリューブレイカー 轟振どりるれろ (Screw Breaker, スクリューブレイカー 轟振どりるれろ^?)) (2005, Nintendo)

[edit] Nintendo DS

• Pokémon Diamond and Pearl (2006), Nintendo

[edit] Nintendo Family Computer/Nintendo Entertainment System

• Yoshi/Mario & Yoshi (ヨッシーのたまご (Yoshi no Tamago, ヨッシーのたまご^?)) (1991, Nintendo)
• Mendel Palace (クインティ (Quinty, クインティ^?)) (1989, Hudson Soft [U.S.], Namco [Japan])

[edit] Nintendo Super Famicom/Super NES

• BUSHI Seiryūden: Futari no Yūsha (ＢＵＳＨＩ青龍伝～二人の勇者～, BUSHI Seiryūden: Futari no Yūsha^?) (1997, Sony)
• Mario & Wario (マリオとワリオ, Mario to Wario^?) (1993, Nintendo)
• Smart Ball (ジェリーボーイ (Jerry Boy, ジェリーボーイ^?)) (1991, Sony)

[edit] NEC PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16

• Bazaar de Gosāru no Game de Gosāru (バザールでござーるのゲームでござーる) (1996, NEC)

[edit] Sega Mega Drive/Sega Genesis

• Magical Tarurūto-kun (まじかるタルるートくん) (1992, Sega)
• Pulseman (パルスマン) (1994, Sega)

[edit] Sony PlayStation

• Click Medic (クリックメディック) (1999, Sony)

[edit] External links

• GAME FREAK Web Page - Official (Japanese)

Nintendo Developers

In-house & first-party : Integrated R&D | R&D 1 | R&D 2 | EAD | Intelligent Systems | EAD Tokyo | NST | Retro Studios | Brownie Brown

Second-party: HAL Laboratory | Camelot | Genius Sonority | Creatures Inc. | AlphaDream | Game Freak | NOISE