NOISE (developer)

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NOISE, Inc.
Type of Company	privately held
Founded	September 2, 1996
Headquarters	Tokyo, Japan
Key people	Kouji Kenjou, game designer
Industry	Computer and video game industry
Products	Games for Nintendo video game consoles
Employees	16
Website	http://www.noise-games.com/

NOISE, Inc. is a video game development company who works as a second-party developer for Nintendo. The company was founded with a staff of 10 people in September 2, 1996 for the original purpose of developing games for PCs. A short time after, NOISE became a part of Marigul Management, Inc., a company created by Nintendo and the Japanese telecommunications company Recruit for the purpose of enlisting smaller developers to make original games for the Nintendo 64.

The company’s first commercially published game, Custom Robo for the Nintendo 64, was released in Japan on December 9, 1999 and became a commercial success in Japan, prompting Nintendo to formally induct NOISE as an official second-party developer.

Their second released title was Custom Robo V2, was released in November 10, 2000 and was also met with commercial success in Japan. They also released their first portable video game for the Game Boy Advance, Custom Robo GX, on July 26, 2002.

Despite the impressive sales of the previous games in the Custom Robo franchise, the series’ first localized appearance in North America was with Custom Robo Battle Revolution for the GameCube, released in the Spring of 2004. However, with the declining popularity of the GameCube in all regions and the mediocre reviews the game received, it became the lowest selling – and least popular - game in the franchise.

NOISE is currently underway with Custom Robo Arena, a Nintendo DS title scheduled for release in 2006.

Contents 1 Games 1.1 Nintendo 64 1.2 Game Boy Advance 1.3 GameCube 1.4 Nintendo DS 2 External links

[edit] Games

[edit] Nintendo 64

• Custom Robo (Japan only)
• Custom Robo V2 (Japan only)

[edit] Game Boy Advance

• Custom Robo GX (Japan only)

[edit] GameCube

• Custom Robo Battle Revolution

[edit] Nintendo DS

• Custom Robo Arena

[edit] External links

• Official company website

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