Creatures Inc.

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Creatures Incorporated (株式会社クリーチャーズ, Kabushiki-gaisha Kurīchāzu^?) is a Japanese toy company subsidiary of Nintendo. The company was founded as Ape, Inc. by Tsunekazu Ishihara as a joint company between Nintendo and HAL Laboratory. Its current president is Hirokazu Tanaka.

Creatures is the producer of the Pokémon card games and toys, and it owns one-third of the copyright over the Pokémon franchise (the other two-thirds shared equally between Nintendo and Game Freak). The company has also created the EarthBound series when it was known as Ape.

Contents 1 Games 1.1 Nintendo Entertainment System 1.2 Super Nintendo Entertainment System 2 External links

[edit] Games

[edit] Nintendo Entertainment System

• Mother

[edit] Super Nintendo Entertainment System

• EarthBound
• Mario's Super Picross
• The Monopoly Game 2

[edit] External links

• Creatures Inc., the official Japanese website.

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