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Jupiter (company)
is a Japanese video game and hardware development studio that focuses on handheld consoles. It is based in Kyoto, though they have a secondary branch in Tokyo. Jupiter's motto is “Let’s Play! Let’s Smile!”. Titles Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Super NES *''Tamori's Picross'' *''Mario's Super Picross'' *''Picross NP'' Game Boy *''J-League Big Wave Soccer'' *''Mario's Picross'' *''Nippon Daihyou Team: Eikou no Eleven'' *''Picross 2'' *''Pocket Kyoro-chan'' *''Pocket Kanjiro'' *''Game Boy Camera'' Game Boy Color *''Dangun Racer'' *''Pokémon Picross'' (unreleased) *''Pokémon Pinball'' *''Sakura Taisen GB'' *''Sakura Taisen GB2'' *''Super Robot Pinball'' Game Boy Advance *''Animal Mania'' *''Croket!#Games, Croket! Great Jikuu no Boukensha'' *''Disney Sports Motocross'' *''Disney's Party'' *''Erementar Gerad: Tozasareshi Uta'' *''Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories'' (in cooperation with Square Enix) *Kessakusen! Ganbare Goemon 1•2: Yukihime to Magginesu *''Soni ...
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Video Game Industry
The video game industry is the tertiary industry, tertiary and quaternary industry, quaternary sectors of the entertainment industry that specialize in the video game development, development, marketing, distribution (marketing), distribution, video game monetization, monetization, and customer satisfaction research, consumer feedback of video games. The industry (economics), industry encompasses dozens of job disciplines and thousands of jobs worldwide. The video game industry has grown from niche to mainstream. , video games generated annually in global sales. In the US, the industry earned about in 2007, in 2008, and 2010, according to the Entertainment Software Association, ESA annual report. Research from Ampere Analysis indicated three points: the sector has consistently grown since at least 2015 and expanded 26% COVID-19 pandemic, from 2019 to 2021, to a record ; the global games and services market is forecast to shrink 1.2% annually to in 2022. The industry has i ...
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Disney Sports Motocross
''Disney Sports Motocross'' is a 2003 motocross racing video game for the Game Boy Advance developed by Jupiter Corporation and published by Konami. The game is the final of a series of Disney-licensed sports titles under the ''Disney Sports'' brand. The game is a motocross game in which players can race as Disney licensed characters, including Mickey Mouse, across seven stages. Upon release, ''Disney Sports Motocross'' received a mixed reception, with reviewers praising the game's graphics, and critiquing the game's lack of variety in courses, confusing controls and visual design, and difficulty. Gameplay Single player modes include a tournament mode named the Championship Cup, in which players complete six courses with different laps and heats, as well as Time Attack, Score Attack, Exhibition, minigames and tutorials. The game also supports local multiplayer for up to four players using the Game Link Cable. Races take place across seven courses, and players can select one o ...
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The World Ends With You
''The World Ends with You'' is an action role-playing game co-developed by Square Enix and Jupiter for the Nintendo DS. Set in the modern-day Shibuya shopping district of Tokyo, ''The World Ends with You'' features a distinctive art style and urban fantasy elements inspired by Shibuya and its youth culture. Development was inspired by elements of Jupiter's previous handheld game, ''Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories''. It was released in Japan in July 2007, and in PAL regions and North America in April 2008. Later, an enhanced port by h.a.n.d. for mobile devices was released in 2012 under the title ''The World Ends with You: Solo Remix'', while another enhanced port for the Nintendo Switch was released worldwide in 2018 under the title ''The World Ends with You: Final Remix''. In the story, protagonist Neku Sakuraba and his allies are forced to participate in a game that will determine their fate. The battle system uses many of the unique features of the Nintendo DS, including c ...
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Beyond The Portals
Beyond may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Films * ''Beyond'' (1921 film), an American silent film * ''Beyond'' (2000 film), a Danish film directed by Åke Sandgren, OT: ''Dykkerne'' * ''Beyond'' (2010 film), a Swedish film directed by Pernilla August, OT: ''Svinalängorna'' * ''Beyond'' (2012 film), an American thriller directed by Josef Rusnak * ''Beyond'' (2014 film), a British science fiction film *"Beyond", a segment of the short-film collection ''The Animatrix'' *''Star Trek Beyond'', a 2016 American science fiction film in the ''Star Trek'' film franchise Games *Beyond Games, a U.S. video game developer founded in 1992 * Beyond Software, a 1980s UK video game developer *'' Beyond: Two Souls'', a video game for the PlayStation 3 *'' Metroid Prime 4: Beyond'', a video game in the ''Metroid'' franchise *Stormfront Studios, a U.S. video game developer originally named Beyond Software (1988–1991) Music Groups *Beyond (band), a Hong Kong rock band formed in 1 ...
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Spectrobes (video Game)
''Spectrobes'', known in Japan as , is an action role-playing video game developed by Jupiter and published by Disney Interactive Studios for the Nintendo DS. Disney Interactive Studios has stated that ''Spectrobes'' is its first original intellectual property; that is, a game not based on any film or TV program from its parent company. The game was considered a commercial success and Disney Interactive Studios announced that more than 700,000 copies of the game had shipped worldwide in the first month and it was the best-selling third-party (not published by Nintendo, Microsoft, or Sony) game for March 2007, ranking #7 over all that month. The game was re-released in November 2007 as part of a special ''Spectrobes: Collector's Edition'' bundle, which included the game itself, all thirty-eight input code cards plus two exclusive Geo input cards, and a mini-guide. Gameplay Nintendo Wi-Fi The Download feature allowed the player to use DL (Downloader) Points earned from acce ...
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The Hundred Cell Calculation Method
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee' ...
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Picross DS
is a puzzle video game developed by Jupiter and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS handheld video game console. It is the second game in the '' Picross'' series to be released by Nintendo in Europe and North America after ''Mario's Picross'' suffered a commercial failure in regions outside Japan, where many games in the series have been released for several Nintendo consoles. Like other games in the ''Picross'' series, it presents the player with a series of nonogram logic puzzles to solve. It was first released in Japan, and was later released in North America, Europe and Australia. Gameplay Gameplay follows traditional nonogram rules, where players use logic to mark each square as full or empty, eventually revealing an unknown picture. Additional modes allow players to create their own puzzles and send them to friends, download classic puzzles and compete in speed competitions with friends or random rivals via the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection, download classic nonogram ...
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Nintendo DS
The is a foldable handheld game console produced by Nintendo, released globally across 2004 and 2005. The DS, an initialism for "Developers' System" or "Dual Screen", introduced distinctive new features to handheld games: two LCD screens working in tandem (the bottom of which is a touchscreen), a built-in microphone, and support for wireless network, wireless connectivity. Both screens are encompassed within a clamshell design similar to the Game Boy Advance SP. The Nintendo DS also features the ability for multiple DS consoles to directly interact with each other over Wi-Fi within a short range without the need to connect to an existing wireless network. Alternatively, they could interact online using the now-defunct Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection service. Its main competitor was Sony Interactive Entertainment, Sony's PlayStation Portable during the seventh generation of video game consoles. Prior to its release, the Nintendo DS was marketed as an experimental "third pillar" in Nin ...
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Ruby & Sapphire
Ruby and sapphire may refer to: * Corundum, a class of gems including both rubies and sapphires * ''Pokémon Ruby'' and ''Sapphire'', a pair of 2002 video games * Garnet, a fictional character from ''Steven Universe'', formed by the fusion of Ruby and Sapphire * ''Ruby & Sapphire'', a 1997 book (and updated editions) by gemologist Richard W. Hughes See also * ''Pokémon Omega Ruby'' and ''Alpha Sapphire'' * Ruby (other) * Sapphire (other) Sapphire is a blue gemstone in the corundum family. Sapphire (s), SAPPHIRE, or The Sapphires may also refer to: People *Olga Sapphire (1907–1981), stage name of the Russian-Japanese ballerina born Olga Ivanovna Pavlova *Sapphire (author), Afri ...
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Sonic Team
, doing business as , is a Japanese video game developer owned by Sega. Sonic Team is best known for its ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' series and games such as '' Nights into Dreams'' and '' Phantasy Star Online''. The initial team, formed in 1990, consisted of developers from a team within Sega, including programmer Yuji Naka, artist Naoto Ohshima and level designer Hirokazu Yasuhara. The team took the name Sonic Team in 1991 with the release of their first game, ''Sonic the Hedgehog,'' for the Sega Genesis. It was a major success and contributed to millions of Genesis sales. The next ''Sonic'' games were developed by Naka and Yasuhara in America at Sega Technical Institute, while Ohshima worked on '' Sonic CD'' in Japan at CS3. Naka returned to Japan in late 1994 to become the head of CS3, later renamed R&D No. 8. During this time, the division took on the Sonic Team brand but developed games that do not feature Sonic, such as ''Nights into Dreams'' (1996) and '' Burning Rangers'' ...
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Sonic Pinball Party
is a video game released for the Game Boy Advance in 2003. It is a celebration of sorts for Sonic Team featuring many references to its previous games, mostly prominently ''Sonic the Hedgehog'', '' Nights into Dreams'', and '' Samba De Amigo''. There was also a release on a Twin Pack cartridge bundled with '' Sonic Battle'' and '' Sonic Advance'' respectively in 2005. Plot The story is set in Casinopolis (in Station Square), where Doctor Eggman turns the people gambling into robots, and brainwashes Miles "Tails" Prower and Amy Rose. Sonic must rescue his friends by winning a pinball tournament called the "Egg Cup Tournament." Gameplay ''Sonic Pinball Party'' is a pinball video game with the objective being to earn as many points as possible. During both the Story and Arcade Modes of the game, the player starts each match with three pinballs, each one shot onto the playfield from the plunger. When the pinball rolls into the hole on the bottom of the table, the player loses a ba ...
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