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Densetsu No Starfy 3
is a platforming video game developed by Tose and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy Advance only in Japan on August 5, 2004. It is the third game in ''The Legendary Starfy'' series, as well as the third and last title of the series developed and released for the Game Boy Advance. Later, its sequel, ''Densetsu no Starfy 4'', was developed for the Nintendo DS. It received its first official re-release on the Nintendo Classics service on July 12, 2024, in all regions for the first time along with the other GBA entries. Plot In the beginning, a short time after ''Densetsu no Starfy 2''s storyline, everything is calm, and everyone, including the protagonist Stafy, known as Starfy in Western regions, is happy again, until another severe thunderstorm comes and shakes Pufftop Palace. This time, it is more severe than the ones in the past. A lightning bolt strikes the Magic Jar and destroys it, and the antagonist of the previous titles, Ogura, is freed once again. He later flies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tose (company)
(also called Tose Software) is a Japanese video game developer based in Kyoto. It is mostly known for developing Nintendo's Game & Watch ports and remakes#Game & Watch Gallery series, ''Game & Watch Gallery'' series, various ''Dragon Ball'' games, as well as contract work or assistance to other developers. Tose has developed or co-developed over 1,000 games since the company's inception in 1979, but is virtually never credited in the games themselves (an exception to this is ''Scarlet Nexus'' with Bandai Namco Entertainment, Bandai Namco, ''Game & Watch Gallery 4'' and The Legendary Starfy (series), ''The Legendary Starfy'' series, as Tose shares the copyright with Nintendo). Tose maintains a policy of having no creative input into the work they do, going so far as to refuse to put their names in the credits for most of the games they work on. As such, Tose has gained a reputation for being a "ghost developer". History Tose was established in November 1979 in Higashiyama-ku, Ky ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stapy
is a video game series developed by Tose and published by Nintendo. The series began in 2002 with '' Densetsu no Starfy'' for the Game Boy Advance, and four sequels were released. For its first seven years, ''Starfy'' games were not released outside Japan. The fifth and latest game in the series was released as ''The Legendary Starfy'' in North America on June 8, 2009. In July 2024, the first three titles were officially released via the Nintendo Classics service. The series focuses on Starfy, an anthropomorphic starfish and the prince of Pufftop Palace, who must explore the underneaths of the ocean to save the world from various threats alongsides his friends and family. The first three games focus on Starfy's efforts to prevent Ogura from sabotaging the ocean, while the fourth game focuses on Starfy into saving a distant island, and the fifth game follows Starfy who must stop space pirates from abusing power. Games Gameplay ''The Legendary Starfy'' series are platform game ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nintendo Life
Gamer Network Limited (formerly Eurogamer Network Limited) is a British digital media company based in London. Founded in 1999 by Rupert and Nick Loman, it owns brands—primarily editorial websites—relating to video game journalism and other video game businesses. Its flagship website, ''Eurogamer'', was launched alongside the company. It began hosting the video game trade show EGX in 2008. ReedPop acquired Gamer Network in 2018 and sold it to IGN Entertainment in 2024. History Gamer Network was founded under the name Eurogamer Network in 1999 by brothers Rupert and Nick Loman. It was formed alongside the opening of its flagship website, ''Eurogamer'', which itself launched on 4 September 1999. Nick Loman left the business in 2004 to pursue a career in medicine and "competitive BBQ". In February 2011, Eurogamer Network acquired American publishing house Hammersuit, alongside its IndustryGamers.com and Modojo.com websites. On 1 March 2013, in line with the internation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Famitsu
, formerly , is a line of Japanese Video game journalism, video game magazines published by Kadokawa Game Linkage (previously known as Gzbrain), a subsidiary of Kadokawa Corporation, Kadokawa. ''Famitsu'' is published in both weekly and monthly formats as well as in the form of special topical issues devoted to only one console, video game company, or other theme. the original ''Famitsu'' publication, is considered the most widely read and respected Video game journalism, video game news magazine in Japan. From October 28, 2011, the company began releasing the digital version of the magazine exclusively on BookWalker weekly. The name ''Famitsu'' is a Portmanteau#Japanese, portmanteau abbreviation of ''Famicom Tsūshin''; the word "Famicom" itself comes from a portmanteau abbreviation of "Nintendo Entertainment System, Family Computer", the dominant video game console in Japan when the magazine was first published in the 1980s. History , a computer game magazine, started in 1982 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oha Suta
''Oha Suta'' () is a Japanese children's breakfast television show. Produced by Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions (ShoPro) for TV Tokyo, the show airs on TX Network (TXN). It premiered in 1997 as a relaunch of (. ''Sutajio'' is a loanword from English word "studio"), which originally ran from 2 April 1979 to 27 June 1986 on what is now TXN; the title of this revival, ''Oha Suta'', comes from the Japanese abbreviated and contracted words, portmanteau of the original ''Ohayō Studio''. Cast *Subaru Kimura Oha Girls are cast members consisting of girls in their early-mid teens who act as co-hosts and musical performers. Previous Oha Girls include Haruka Suenaga and Nozomi Maeda. *Oha Girl Apple (おはガールアップル, July 1998 - September 1998) *Oha Girl Banana (おはガールバナナ, October 1998 - March 1999) *Oha Girl Citrus (おはガールシトラス, April 1999 - March 2000) *Oha Girl Cherry (おはガールチェリー, April 1999 - March 2000) *Oha Girl Grape ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
J-Pop
J-pop (often stylized in all caps; an abbreviated form of "Japanese popular music"), natively known simply as , is the name for a form of popular music that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the 1990s. Modern J-pop has its roots in traditional music of Japan, and significantly in 1960s in music, 1960s pop music, pop and rock music. J-pop replaced ''kayōkyoku'' ("Lyric Singing Music"), a term for Japanese popular music from the 1920s to the 1980s in the Japanese music scene. Japanese rock bands such as Happy End (band), Happy End fused the Beatles and Beach Boys-style rock with Japanese music in the 1960s1970s. J-pop was further defined by New wave music, new wave and Crossover music, crossover Jazz fusion, fusion acts of the late 1970s, such as Yellow Magic Orchestra and Southern All Stars. () Popular styles of Japanese pop music include city pop and technopop during the 1970s1980s, and Eurobeat#J-Euro, J-Euro (such as Namie Amuro) and Shibuya-kei during the 1990s and 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perfume (Japanese Band)
is a Japanese girl group#Emergence of Asian dance-pop girl groups, girl group consisting of Ayano Ōmoto, Nocchi, Yuka Kashino, Kashiyuka, and Ayaka Nishiwaki, A-chan. The group formed in 2000 in Hiroshima, Japan, then moved three years later to Tokyo, where they worked with producer Yasutaka Nakata, who created a Synth-pop, technopop identity for the group. Their performances are noted for their choreography and incorporation of technology with Future, futuristic imagery, and Perfume has emerged as one of the List of best-selling music artists in Japan, most successful Japanese girl groups. After a slew of indie singles, Perfume made their major label debut with "Linear Motor Girl" on Tokuma Japan in 2005. Their early releases, including ''Perfume: Complete Best'' (2006), were met with modest commercial reception, before a breakthrough in 2007 with the single "Polyrhythm (song), Polyrhythm". Their debut studio album, Game (Perfume album), ''Game'' (2008), began a streak of nin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Television Commercial
A television advertisement (also called a commercial, spot, break, advert, or ad) is a span of television programming produced and paid for by an organization. It conveys a message promoting, and aiming to market, a product, service or idea. Advertisers and marketers may refer to television commercials as TVCs. Advertising revenue provides a significant portion of the funding for most privately owned television networks. During the 2010s, the number of commercials has grown steadily, though the length of each commercial has diminished. Advertisements of this type have promoted a wide variety of goods, services, and ideas ever since the early days of the history of television. The viewership of television programming, as measured by companies such as Nielsen Media Research in the United States, or BARB in the UK, is often used as a metric for television advertisement placement, and consequently, for the rates which broadcasters charge to advertisers to air within a given net ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Breakout (arcade Game)
''Breakout'' is an arcade video game developed and published by Atari, Inc. and released on May 13, 1976. ''Breakout'' was released in Japanese arcades by Namco. The game was designed by Nolan Bushnell and Steve Bristow and prototyped via discrete logic chips by Steve Wozniak with assistance from Steve Jobs. In the game, eight rows of bricks line the top portion of the screen, and the player's goal is to destroy the bricks by repeatedly bouncing a ball off a paddle into them. The concept was predated by Ramtek's ''Clean Sweep'' (1974), but the game's designers were influenced by Atari's own ''Pong'' (1972). The arcade version of ''Breakout'' uses a monochrome display underneath a translucent colored overlay. The game was a worldwide commercial success. It was among the top five highest-grossing arcade video games of 1976 in the U.S. and Japan, and among the top three in both countries for 1977. A port of the game was published in 1978 for the Atari 2600 with color graphics. An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atari
Atari () is a brand name that has been owned by several entities since its inception in 1972. It is currently owned by French holding company Atari SA (formerly Infogrames) and its focus is on "video games, consumer hardware, licensing and blockchain". The original Atari, Inc., founded in Sunnyvale, California, United States in 1972 by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney, was a pioneer in arcade games, home video game consoles, and home computers. The company's products, such as '' Pong'' and the Atari 2600, helped define the electronic entertainment industry from the 1970s to the mid-1980s. In 1984, as a result of the video game crash of 1983, the assets of the home console and computer divisions of the original Atari Inc. were sold off to Jack Tramiel's Tramel Technology Ltd., which then renamed itself to Atari Corporation, while the remaining part of Atari, Inc. was renamed Atari Games Inc. In early 1985, Warner established a new corporation jointly with Namco subsequen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wario
is a character in Nintendo's Mario (franchise), ''Mario'' franchise that was designed as an Archenemy, archnemesis to Mario. Wario first appeared as the main antagonist and final Boss (video games), boss in the 1992 Game Boy game ''Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins''. His name is a portmanteau of the name Mario and the Japanese word ''warui'' (wikt:悪い, 悪い), meaning "bad". He is usually portrayed as a selfish and greedy treasure hunter who, in karmic irony, routinely loses his spoils by adventure’s end. Since his debut, he has appeared in the majority of ''Mario'' video games. Hiroji Kiyotake designed Wario, and Charles Martinet voiced the character from 1993 to 2023. Wario is also the main protagonist and antihero of the Wario (franchise)#Wario Land, ''Wario Land'' platformer series and the ''WarioWare'' Party game#Video games, party game series. He makes regular appearances as a playable character in ''Mario'' spin-offs and other video game series, including ''Mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Densetsu No Starfy (video Game)
is a platform video game developed by Tose and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy Advance system exclusively in Japan on September 6, 2002. It is the first game in ''The Legendary Starfy'' series. It received its first official re-release on the Nintendo Classics service on July 12, 2024, in all regions for the first time along with the other GBA entries. Plot In the game's introduction, the protagonist, Stafy, known as Starfy in Western regions, is moving things around his home, Pufftop Palace, until he trips and drops some things he was moving. One of them, the Magic Jar (an object that seals the antagonist of the game, known as Ogura), falls into the ocean. Meanwhile, a very severe thunderstorm with two tornadoes shakes Starfy out of his home into the ocean. Later, Old Man Lobber encounters Starfy, and Starfy tells him about the Magic Jar and Ogura, while he helps Starfy get back home by giving him swimming lessons, and gives directions. While Starfy heads back home, h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
