Japan Art Media

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Japan Art Media, or JAM, is a Japanese video game development studio founded in 1989. The studio began developing games for the Nintendo Game Boy, but soon branched out to develop games on many other platforms, mainly Super Nintendo and Sony PlayStation. Japan Art Media also had a strong partnership with Yanoman, which published most of their games until the mid 90s.

JAM is primarily known for their series 'Aretha', which was very popular in Japan and spanned 3 Game Boy games and 3 Super Nintendo games. However, after the release of Rejoice: Aretha Oukoku no Kanata, the company never made another game in this series, instead developing games for popular franchises, most notably 'Gundam' and 'Lunar' games. To this day however there is still a large following of Aretha fans in Japan, with lots of fan-sites, fan-art and fan-fiction still being done.

JAM has experience in creating traditional RPGs (such as Aretha 1-3, Songmaster, Lunar Legend), action RPGs (such as Trinea, Haou Taikei Ryu Knight, Rejoice) and strategy war games (such as SD Gundam GNEXT and Yuugen Kaisha Chikyuu Boueitai: Earth Defenders Corporation).

JAM is currently developing a new Nintendo DS game called Remindelight, an action RPG.