Arika

Arika Co. Ltd.
株式会社アリカ
Kabushiki gaisha
Industry Video game industry
Founded November 1, 1995 (1995-11-01)
Headquarters Tokyo, Japan
Key people
 Akira Nishitani (President)
Number of employees
 50
Website www.arika.co.jp

Arika Co. Ltd. (アリカ) is a Japanese video game developer. It was formed in 1995 by former Capcom employees. The name of the company itself is the reverse of the name of the company's founder, Akira Nishitani (Nin Nin), who (along with Akiman) created Street Fighter II. Arika's first arcade game was Street Fighter EX. It was successful and was followed up with two updates (Street Fighter EX + and EX + α for the PlayStation), and then two sequels on the arcade and PlayStation 2. Now it is currently working on a game as by now called "Fighting EX Layer", which will be released by 2018. The characters revealed so by now are Kairi, Garuda, Skullomania, Darun Mister and Hokuto. It is going to be playable on PlayStation 4.

Arika is well known for the Tetris: The Grand Master series and Cardcaptor Sakura series. A recent notable game by the developer is Endless Ocean, a scuba diving game for the Wii.

Games developed

Street Fighter EX series

Nintendo-published Games and Classic Games

3D Classics

Other games developed

Under development

In July 2011, a video from an Arika 3DS test project, currently called Fighting Sample, was released, featuring Hokuto and Kairi from the Street Fighter EX series.[1] Further screenshots show Blair, Doctrine Dark and Shadow Geist. Unfortunately, the project was cancelled.[2]

Tetris: The Grand Master 4: Masters of Round has been shown to be in development multiple times since as early as 2009. However, it was cancelled later on due to various reasons, including copyright infringements with regards to emulation and various fan-developed clones of TGM, most notably Texmaster2009.[3] TGM4 has been uncancelled again recently; The Grand Master 2015 was announced and playtested in both Japan and the United States in June 2015. This playtest was not officially licensed by The Tetris Company, and it is unclear whether we will ever see a TGM4.

Not long after completion, a Tetris the Absolute: The Grand Master 2 PLUS port to the PlayStation 2 was shown to be in development. Due to unknown reasons, the port wasn't licensed and was never released.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "First Video of Arika's Fighting Sample (Featuring SFEX Characters) « Shoryuken". Shoryuken.com. 2011-07-11. Retrieved 2012-08-19.
  2. ↑ "Street Fighter EX Characters Resurface in Arika’s 3DS Fighting Sample « Shoryuken". Shoryuken.com. 2011-06-30. Retrieved 2012-08-19.
  3. ↑ "Mihara's sub Layer %7c なぜ今更言い出したのか？". Ichiro Mihara. 2010-09-19. Retrieved 2016-01-15.
  4. ↑ "三原さん。＠ARIKA on Twitter: "@BBQTurkeyzZ 平たく言うとライセンスが得られなかったということです。"". Ichiro Mihara. 2016-01-29. Retrieved 2016-01-29.
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