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

[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.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Gamasutra - "Tose: Game Development Ninjas" by Brandon Sheffield (Accessed online May 22, 2006)
  2. ^ "The Connection is Made: Developer Highlights from Game Connection 2006 (Part Two)" by Frank Cifaldi, April 20, 2006

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