Minakuchi Engineering
Native name | |
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Company type | Kabushiki gaisha |
Industry | Video games |
Founded | May 1984 |
Founder | Kunishige Yoshida |
Defunct | 2002 | (estimated)
Fate | Closed |
Headquarters | Kōka, Shiga |
Area served | Japan |
Products | Mega Man series |
Minakuchi Engineering Co., Ltd. (
History[edit]
Minakuchi Engineering was established in May 1984, basing its headquarter on Kōka District of Shiga, and named their company after one of the towns in the area, Minakuchi.[1]
According to its now defunct website, Minakuchi Engineering had worked on about 40 different games for a variety of publishers, but due to the anonymous nature of the video game credits at the time, it's difficult to identify exactly which it's responsible for.[2] One of its better known footnotes is the partnership with Capcom, having developed the Mega Man games including Mega Man: The Wily Wars for Sega Genesis, Mega Man X3 for SNES, and four of the Game Boy Mega Man titles (from Mega Man: Dr. Wily's Revenge to Mega Man V, with exception of II).[4]
One of its employees was Mega Man series composer Kouji Murata, who worked on the Game Boy Mega Man games starting from Mega Man III.[5]
Games developed[edit]
Arcade[edit]
- Power Spikes (1991)
- Turbo Force (1991)
Game Boy[edit]
- Bionic Commando (1992)
- Mega Man: Dr. Wily's Revenge (1991)
- Mega Man III (1992)
- Mega Man IV (1993)
- Mega Man V (1994)
- Qix (1990)
- Solar Striker (1990)
Genesis[edit]
- Mega Man: The Wily Wars (1994)
MSX2[edit]
- Kimagure Orange Road: Natsu no Mirage (1988)
- Maison Ikkoku: Kanketsuhen: Sayonara, Soshite... (1988)
- What's Michael? (1989)
SNES[edit]
- Magic Sword (1992)
- Knights of the Round (1994)
- Mega Man X3 (1995)
References[edit]
- ^ a b "
水口 エンジニアリング会社 案内 ". Archived from the original on 1999-02-03. Retrieved 2019-07-30. - ^ a b "Minakuchi Engineering - GDRI :: Game Developer Research Institute". GDRI (Game Developer Research Institute). Retrieved 2019-07-30.
- ^ "Minakuchi Engineering (Company) - Giant Bomb". Giant Bomb. Retrieved 2019-07-30.
- ^ Parish, Jeremy (16 December 2017). "Ranking the core Mega Man games". Polygon. Retrieved 2019-07-30.
- ^ "これまでの
仕事 / Works" (in Japanese). Murata, Kouji. Archived from the original on 2011-09-02. Retrieved 2019-07-30.
Links[edit]
- Official website (Wayback Machine)