Nintegageo | 583 Posted July 9, 2020 Share Posted July 9, 2020 So non-Nintendo, Sega, Capcom, Konami etc.. a smaller company. During the 90s, I'd say mine was Natsume. They had some amazing games during that time, particularily playing the SNES. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanooki | 5,087 Posted July 9, 2020 Share Posted July 9, 2020 Almost a bit hard putting it into perspective who would have been thought of as small then but likely if not dead aren't now. SNK with Crystalis and Baseball Stars. Sunsoft with Spy Hunter, Blaster Master, (gifted to me) Festers Quest, and Journey to Silius. Hudson on Faxanadu and Bomberman. Broderbund for Raid on Bungling Bay. Technos for Super Dodgeball and River City Ransom. Obviously given it was supposedly a dying breath--Square with Final Fantasy (also Rad Racer.) SNES era gets a bit trickier. Enix with Actraiser and Soul Blazer. TOHO(Compile) for Space Megaforce. Sammy/Nihon Falcom for Ys 3. Bandai with Ultraman. Interplay for Star Trek Bridge Simulator. Data East for Joe & Mac, and JVC for Indiana Jones and his Greatest Adventures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sumez | 3,134 Posted July 9, 2020 Share Posted July 9, 2020 (edited) If SNK, Hudson, Enix and Natsume are "smaller companies", then I guess my list is endless. Though companies like Konami, Capcom and Taito were obviously very dominating "AAA brands", I'd still say the majority of notable titles for most platforms is made up of A- and B-tier brands like these. SunSoft Natsume Data East Tecmo Jaleco Toaplan Namco Atlus Treasure Squaresoft Irem Falcom Technos Rare Ancient Camelot HAL Westone Quintet Wolf Team Compile Tose Vic Tokai SIMS Dimps NMK KID Human Aicom Seta Ocean Asmik All great game developers. Well, except maybe Asmik and Seta... Edited July 9, 2020 by Sumez Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ifightdragons | 234 Posted July 9, 2020 Share Posted July 9, 2020 So we're basically just listing 3rd party devs on the NES? 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nesmaster14 | 464 Posted July 9, 2020 Share Posted July 9, 2020 I can't remember really seeking out games based on company name, but I remember in the early 2000s I'd often stop and look if a game had a Havok engine logo on it. That physics engine was a lot of fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rdrunner | 444 Posted July 9, 2020 Share Posted July 9, 2020 As a kid, no. Pretty sure back then I was only influenced by friends and maybe Nintendo Power. In recent years, I'm starting to notice companies more. Like I'm much more likely to buy a game by Way forward after playing DuckTales Remastered and Double Dragon Neon. They really know how to do remakes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tulpa | 3,677 Posted July 9, 2020 Share Posted July 9, 2020 9 hours ago, Sumez said: All great game developers. Well, except maybe Asmik and Seta... Aw, Asmik had Wurm and Conquest of the Crystal Palace, and Seta had Formula One Built-to-Win. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearcat-Doug | 5,116 Posted July 9, 2020 Share Posted July 9, 2020 I rented/bought several Taito and Data East games due to them being ports of arcade games that I enjoyed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sumez | 3,134 Posted July 9, 2020 Share Posted July 9, 2020 49 minutes ago, Tulpa said: Aw, Asmik had Wurm and Conquest of the Crystal Palace, and Seta had Formula One Built-to-Win. I could have sworn Wurm was Vic Tokai XD I don't know why I keep mixing up those two. I guess they made very similar games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kguillemette | 1,593 Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 I went out of my way to get Broderbund games after playing Myst and The Guardian Legend. They published a pretty solid library across multiple platforms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aguy | 781 Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 I used to buy all the Nicalis releases on Switch, but stopped after it came out that the owner was ghosting small devs and harassing his employees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tulpa | 3,677 Posted July 11, 2020 Share Posted July 11, 2020 On 7/9/2020 at 11:57 AM, Sumez said: I could have sworn Wurm was Vic Tokai XD I don't know why I keep mixing up those two. I guess they made very similar games. Wurm is similar in gameplay (though not in theme or story) to Golgo 13. Both games had Shoichi Yoshikawa involved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BortLicensePlate | 652 Posted July 11, 2020 Share Posted July 11, 2020 I basically bought mario and pokemon and that's about it when I was a kid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MachineCode | 159 Posted July 12, 2020 Share Posted July 12, 2020 I more recognized who made certain games, but didn't seek out specific publishers. I just based my choices on the games themselves regardless of who made them. To slightly waffle on that, when it came time to buy a new console, I did look to see who would be releasing games for it so that I would be able to get the next entries in series that I enjoyed. But other than that, it was never like "Let's see what Sunsoft has out this month." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeppelin03 | 314 Posted July 12, 2020 Share Posted July 12, 2020 I never really looked into that. I didn't realize Nintendo didn't make all the games until after the N64. I always just saw their name on the box and when you turned on the console. Rare, Neversoft, etc didn't mean anything to me. After that I started to notice but it took until the last few years to really follow developers/publishers. Now it's just for the ones to ignore (Ubisoft/EA). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a3quit4s | 4,313 Posted July 12, 2020 Share Posted July 12, 2020 (edited) I dunno about smaller in their prime but Taito games are the shit edit: didn’t realize they were bought by Square in 2006. Probably to big for this thread but nonetheless the NES games were awesome. Edited July 12, 2020 by a3quit4s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guillavoie | 1,225 Events Team · Posted July 12, 2020 Share Posted July 12, 2020 When I was young I really enjoyed the games developed by RARE on the NES. I liked the genuinely good games of them (Battle toads, Cobra Triangle, R.C. Pro-Am, Wizards & Warriors, etc.), but I also enjoyed any game of them just because of the particular vibe they had, especially their music and sounds effect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deadeye | 1,601 Homebrew Team · Posted July 12, 2020 Share Posted July 12, 2020 On 7/9/2020 at 2:07 PM, Tulpa said: Formula One Built-to-Win Great game. Ahead of its time. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tulpa | 3,677 Posted July 12, 2020 Share Posted July 12, 2020 2 hours ago, Deadeye said: Great game. Ahead of its time. Yeah, I'm not a huge fan of Seta games, but they knocked that one out of the park. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sumez | 3,134 Posted July 13, 2020 Share Posted July 13, 2020 (edited) 16 hours ago, a3quit4s said: I dunno about smaller in their prime but Taito games are the shit In the arcade, Taito were pretty much the leading business for a while. Space Invaders was a gigantic hit, and of course Bubble Bobble, as well as everything inbetween. They published the earliest Capcom games outside Japan (like Ghosts n Goblins) before those guys got their own footing, and they even took a lead in the shoot'em up genre thanks to Toaplan's outputs until those guys went indie. I always considered them one of the elite. Edited July 13, 2020 by Sumez 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NESfiend | 1,550 Posted July 13, 2020 Share Posted July 13, 2020 (edited) During NES era, only publisher I remember looking for was Konami. Seemed like everything konami I played was good. During SNES era, Capcom was the one. Edited July 13, 2020 by NESfiend Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMR | 538 Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 (edited) I'm a big fan of the Broderbund releases even though there are only three of them worth playing, but seeing as that's more than half their catalog, I guess it's good enough. Edited July 14, 2020 by CMR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Rothchild | 9,909 Editorials Team · Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 Square and Working Design back in the day. Nowadays? I dunno, Atlus maybe. If they actually released anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
koifish | 588 Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 TOSE and T&E Soft are my picks. Both have had a big role in some personal favorites. I'm also fascinated by artdink and WARP and I'm trying to get to the point that I can play them. Also, sirtech for their gift of frustration that is wizardry. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Hobbesworth | 20 Posted July 20, 2020 Share Posted July 20, 2020 I never had a Genesis or Saturn, so I missed out on a lot of stuff by Treasure, despite making many of the best 2D action games of all time. Guardian Heroes and Gunstar Heroes are still 2 of my all-time favorites. I really need to get Gunstar Super Heroes sometime, hopefully it's a better sequel than Advance Guardian Heroes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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