Paon

Paon Corporation, Ltd.
Type Public
Industry Video game industry
Founded January 20 1999
Headquarters Tokyo, Japan
Key people Rikiya Nakagawa
Products Video games
Employees 120
Website http://www.paon.co.jp/

Paon (パオン?) is a video game development company based in Japan. Through a partnership with Nintendo, the company has developed DK: King of Swing, DK: Jungle Climber and Donkey Kong Barrel Blast. They also developed Hercules no Eikō: Tamashii no Shōmei, the fifth title of the Hercules no Eikō series.

When the company Data East went bankrupt, Paon became composed of former Data East staff and bought the rights to some of their games, including Karnov,[1] Chelnov (sometimes known as Atomic Runner outside of Japan)[2], the Vapor Trail trilogy[3] and the Glory of Heracles series. They are now gradually releasing some of them on the Wii's Virtual Console. They have recently participated in the development of Super Smash Bros. Brawl. So far, Paon have developed games for the Wii, Gameboy Advance, DS and PS2.

Contents

Games developed by Paon

See also

References

  1. ^ "Data East History - DATA EAST GAMES". G-Mode. http://www.dataeastgames.com/history.html. Retrieved 2009-09-06. 
  2. ^ "チェルノブ : Wii(R) バーチャルコンソール メガドライブ 公式サイト". SEGA of Japan. September 11, 2007. http://vc.sega.jp/vc_chelnov/. Retrieved 2008-06-02. 
  3. ^ Data East Retro Game Music Collection music album.

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