TOSE
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TOSE Co., Ltd. (株式会社トーセ Kabushiki-gaisha Tōse?) (TYO: 4728) is a video game development company based in Kyoto, Japan. It is most known for developing Nintendo's Game & Watch Gallery series, as well as other Nintendo products. TOSE has developed over 1,000 games since the company's inception in 1979, but it is nearly impossible to identify them all, since TOSE is almost never credited in the games themselves. (A notable exception to this is the Densetsu no Stafy series, since TOSE shares the copyright with Nintendo.) [1] "We're always behind the scenes," said Masa Agarida, Vice President of Tose's U.S. division. "Our policy is not to have a vision. Instead, we follow our customers' visions. Most of the time we refuse to put our name on the games, not even staff names." TOSE has gained a reputation for being a secretive "Ninja" developer.[2]
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[edit] List of known games developed by TOSE
[edit] Releases
- Bases Loaded — (June 26, 1987), (NES)
- Bases Loaded II: Second Season — (October 8, 1988), (NES)
- Racket Attack — (September, 1991), (NES)
- Bases Loaded 3 — (September, 1991), (NES)
- Game & Watch Gallery 2 — (November, 1998), (Game Boy Color)
- Dragon Warrior Monsters — (September 25, 1998), (Game Boy Color)
- Game & Watch Gallery 3 — (April 8, 1999), (Game Boy Color)
- Metal Gear: Ghost Babel - (April 27, 2000), (Game Boy Color)
- Densetsu no Stafy — (September 6, 2002), (Game Boy Advance)
- Game & Watch Gallery 4 — (October 25, 2002), (Game Boy Advance)
- Shrek: Hassle at the Castle — (October 10, 2002), (Game Boy Advance)
- The King of Route 66 — (co-developed with Sega-AM2), (March 18, 2003), (PlayStation 2)
- Densetsu no Stafy 2 - (September 5, 2003), (Game Boy Advance)
- Densetsu no Stafy 3 - (August 5, 2004), (Game Boy Advance)
- The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Pumpkin King — (October 7, 2005), (Game Boy Advance)
- Super Princess Peach — (October 20, 2005), (Nintendo DS)
- Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime — (December 1, 2005), (Nintendo DS)
- Sega Casino — (November 15, 2005), (Nintendo DS)
- Densetsu no Stafy 4 - (April 13, 2006), (Nintendo DS)
- Avatar: The Last Airbender - (October 10, 2006), (Nintendo DS)
- Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker - (December 28, 2006), (Nintendo DS)
- Crash: Mind Over Mutant - (October 2008), (Nintendo DS)
- WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2009 - (Fall 2008), (Nintendo DS)
[edit] Notable titles ported by TOSE
TOSE has also ported over a few games as well, notably a few Square Soft and Enix games from the NES and SNES days.
- Chrono Trigger (PlayStation)
- Final Fantasy Origins and Final Fantasy I & II: Dawn of Souls (ports of Final Fantasy I & II for the PlayStation and Game Boy Advance, respectively)
- Final Fantasy IV (PlayStation, Game Boy Advance)
- Final Fantasy V (PlayStation, Game Boy Advance)
- Final Fantasy VI (PlayStation, Game Boy Advance)
- Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth (PlayStation Portable)
- Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions (PlayStation Portable)[citation needed]
- Star Ocean: The First Departure (Playstation Portable)[citation needed]
[edit] References
- ^ Gamasutra - "Tose: Game Development Ninjas" by Brandon Sheffield (Accessed online May 22, 2006)
- ^ "The Connection is Made: Developer Highlights from Game Connection 2006 (Part Two)" by Frank Cifaldi, April 20, 2006