Grasshopper Manufacture

Grasshopper Manufacture, Inc.
Subsidiary
Industry Video games
Founded March 30, 1998
Headquarters Suginami, Tokyo, Japan
Key people
 Goichi Suda: CEO, Yasuhiro Wada COO
Products Various video game titles
Number of employees
 140
Parent GungHo Online Entertainment
Slogan "Punk's Not Dead"
Website Grasshopper Manufacture

Grasshopper Manufacture, Inc. (グラスホッパー・マニファクチュア Gurasuhoppā Manifakuchua) is a Japanese video game developer founded on March 30, 1998 in Suginami, Japan. Grasshopper gained mainstream attention in 2005 for the Nintendo GameCube and PlayStation 2 game Killer7. In addition to Killer7, they have developed Michigan: Report From Hell (released in Japan, Europe) and a number of Japan-only titles. Grasshopper Manufacture was also responsible for the Nintendo DS game Contact, the Wii game No More Heroes and its sequel No More Heroes: Desperate Struggle, and Shadows of the Damned. The company is headed by Goichi Suda, also known as Suda51, and is noted for its original and imaginative titles - ones that are also fraught with financial risk. Potential losses are often made up by the development of games based on popular anime franchises, such as Samurai Champloo: Sidetracked, Blood+: One Night Kiss, and Rebuild of Evangelion: Sound Impact.

In May 2007, Suda announced during a speech at the 2007 Game Developers Conference that Grasshopper was at the time working on three titles for the Wii, two of which have now been released: No More Heroes and Fatal Frame IV. There is no information on the status of the third Wii game in development then.

    Grasshopper was said to be working on an Xbox 360 title, and have presented a concept for a PlayStation 3 game called Kurayami, a non-linear action adventure inspired by the worrying and confused universe of the Czech writer Franz Kafka, whom Goichi Suda admires. This was later renamed Shadows of the Damned.

    On January 30, 2013, Grasshopper Manufacture was acquired by GungHo Online Entertainment.[1]

    Games developed

    Year Title System Miscellaneous
    1999 The Silver Case PlayStation Only released in Japan; a remake was developed, but not released, for Nintendo DS
    2001 Flower, Sun, and Rain PlayStation 2 Japan-exclusive. A remake was released for the Nintendo DS available in all Western territories.
    2003 Shining Soul Game Boy Advance Co-developed by Nextech
    2004 Shining Soul II Game Boy Advance Co-developed by Nextech
    2004 Michigan: Report From Hell PlayStation 2 Only released in Japan, Europe and Australia
    2005 Killer7 Nintendo GameCube & PlayStation 2 PlayStation 2 version ported by Capcom
    2006 Blood+: One Night Kiss PlayStation 2 Only released in Japan; co-developed by Namco Bandai
    2006 Samurai Champloo: Sidetracked PlayStation 2 Only released in Japan and North America
    2006 Contact Nintendo DS
    2008 No More Heroes Wii An enhanced port was developed by feelplus and released for Xbox 360 in Japan and PlayStation 3 in Japan, America and Europe under the title No More Heroes: Heroes' Paradise
    2008 Zero: Tsukihami no Kamen Wii Only released in Japan; co-developed by Tecmo and Nintendo
    2009 Flower, Sun, and Rain Nintendo DS Remake developed by h.a.n.d.
    2010 No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle Wii
    2011 Frog Minutes iPhone
    2011 Shadows of the Damned Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 Co-developed by Shinji Mikami and EA Partners
    2011 Rebuild of Evangelion: Sound Impact PlayStation Portable
    2012 Sine Mora PlayStation Vita, PlayStation Network, Xbox Live Arcade & PC Co-developed by Digital Reality
    Published by Microsoft Studios for XBLA and Kalypso Media for Windows.
    2012 Diabolical Pitch Xbox Live Arcade Published by Microsoft Studios
    2012 Guild01 Nintendo 3DS Co-developed by Vivarium Inc. and Level-5
    2012 Lollipop Chainsaw Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 Published by Kadokawa Games in Japan and WB Games outside of Japan
    2012 Black Knight Sword Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network Co-developed by Digital Reality
    2013 Killer Is Dead Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Microsoft Windows Published by Kadokawa Games in Japan, Deep Silver in Europe and Marvelous USA in North America
    2014 Ranko Tsukigime's Longest Day PlayStation 3 Co-developed by Crispy's Inc. and published by Bandai Namco Games
    2015 Let It Die[2] PlayStation 4 Adapted from Lily Bergamo[3]

    See also

    References

    1. ↑ Spencer. "Grasshopper Manufacture Acquired By GungHo Online Entertainment". SiliconEra. Retrieved August 2013.
    2. ↑ "Let It Die E3 2014 Trailer: Suda 51's Next Project". Retrieved June 9, 2014.
    3. ↑ "Grasshopper Manufacture announces PS4 title Lily Bergamo". Retrieved September 18, 2013.

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