Pax Softnica
Pax Softnica (パックスソフトニカ Pakkusu Sofutonika) is a Japanese video game developer founded in 1983 under the name Image Soft and based in Kanagawa, Japan. Pax Softnica developed strong ties with Nintendo, and was hired often as a subcontracted programmer to work with Nintendo EAD and Nintendo R&D1 on several games published on Nintendo consoles. The company is now known simply as Softnica. Its current president is Tomoshige Hashishita.
Notable works
Nintendo Entertainment System
- Hokkaidou Rensa Satsujin: Ohotsuku ni Kiyu
- MOTHER (with Ape Inc. and Nintendo Tokyo R&D Products)
- Super Dyna'mix Badminton
- Super Real Baseball '88
- Tao
- Volleyball
Disk System
Super NES
- EarthBound (with Ape Inc. and HAL Laboratory)
- Famicom Bunko: Hajimari no Mori
- Heisei Shin Onigashima
- Snoopy Concert (with Nintendo R&D1)
- Wrecking Crew '98 (with Nintendo R&D1)
Nintendo 64
- Pokémon Snap (with HAL Laboratory)
MSX
- Attack Four
- Baseball
- Mahjong Hiden
Game Boy
- Balloon Kid
- Donkey Kong (Game Boy) (with Nintendo EAD)
- Mole Mania
- Wave Race (with Nintendo EAD)