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XTALSOFT
was a Japanese software house established in 1982 to develop games for Japanese computers. Most of XTALSOFT's games are traditional role-playing games, with gameplay similar to that of '' Eye of the Beholder''. In July 1986, XTALSOFT was among six other companies to form the Disk Original Group, a collective publishing house for Famicom Disk System games headed by Square For their part, XTALSOFT developed '' Sword of Kalin'' under the Disk Original Group. At the dawn of the 90s, XTALSOFT was experiencing management difficulties, and on October 1, 1990 they combined with T&E Soft to form T&E Soft's Osaka development department. XTALSOFT's name is a blend of "crystal software," where "crystal" is abbreviated with the letter X, a common jargon abbreviation in written English. Originally, their name was written with an apostrophe as "X'TAL SOFT." Currently, all XTALSOFT IPs are owned by D4 Enterprise is a Japanese video game publisher currently specializing in content delivery ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Technology And Entertainment Software
was a Japanese-based video game developer founded in 1982. Although they have made games with a wide variety of genres, they are primarily known in the U.S. for their golf and puzzle video games. The original company exists today under the name of Daikokuya Global Holding Co., Ltd but is not currently engaged in game development. A company named Deep Co., Ltd. acquired T & E Soft 's trademark rights on April 22, 2005, to continue game development which would go on until January 2013. History Founded in 1982, T & E Soft Co., Ltd was initially named after the founder's older brother Toshiro Yokoyama and his younger brother Eiji Yokoyama, but later changed the abbreviation to "Tri & Exciting" and eventually "Technology & Entertainment". T & E Soft started activities by selling games for NEC's PC-6001 series. Beginning in 1983, it developed games for multiple models other than the PC-6001. In December 1983, T & E Soft published its own magazine to promote its products and by J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Square (video Game Company)
(also known under its American brand name SquareSoft) was a Japanese video game development studio and publisher. It was founded in 1986 by Masafumi Miyamoto, who spun off part of his father's electronics company Den-Yu-Sha. Among its early employees were Hironobu Sakaguchi, Hiromichi Tanaka, Akitoshi Kawazu, Koichi Ishii, Kazuko Shibuya, Nasir Gebelli and Nobuo Uematsu. After several other projects, all of these employees would work on ''Final Fantasy'', a 1987 game for the Nintendo Entertainment System which would bring commercial and critical success and launch a franchise of the same name. Later notable staff included Yoshinori Kitase, Takashi Tokita, Tetsuya Nomura, Yoko Shimomura and Yasumi Matsuno. Initially developing for PCs, then exclusively for Nintendo systems, Square broke with Nintendo in the 1990s to develop for Sony's in-development PlayStation. Their first PlayStation project, ''Final Fantasy VII'', was a worldwide success, going on to sell ten million ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Public Company
A public company is a company whose ownership is organized via shares of stock which are intended to be freely traded on a stock exchange or in over-the-counter markets. A public (publicly traded) company can be listed on a stock exchange ( listed company), which facilitates the trade of shares, or not ( unlisted public company). In some jurisdictions, public companies over a certain size must be listed on an exchange. In most cases, public companies are ''private'' enterprises in the ''private'' sector, and "public" emphasizes their reporting and trading on the public markets. Public companies are formed within the legal systems of particular states, and therefore have associations and formal designations which are distinct and separate in the polity in which they reside. In the United States, for example, a public company is usually a type of corporation (though a corporation need not be a public company), in the United Kingdom it is usually a public limited company (plc), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Video Game Industry
The video game industry encompasses the Video game development, development, marketing, and Video game monetization, monetization of video games. The industry (economics), industry encompasses dozens of job disciplines and thousands of jobs worldwide. The video game industry has grown from niches to mainstream. , video games generated annually in global sales. In the US, it 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 is not recession-proof. The industry has influenced the advance of personal computers with sound cards, graphics cards and 3D graphic accelerators, CPUs, and co-processors like PhysX. Sound cards, for example, were origi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of XTALSOFT Games
The following is a list of games developed or published by the defunct Japanese computer and video game company, XTALSOFT. {{Expand list, date=August 2008 Sharp MZ-700 * 1983 ** '' Holy Sword'' Hitachi S1 * 1985 ** ''Lizard'' * 1986 ** '' Heart of Phantasm II'' (夢幻の心臓II) NEC PC-6001 * Dates Unknown ** '' Holy Sword'' ** '' Great Detective Appearance!'' ** ''Lizard'' ** ''Vandal'' ** ''Earthbound'' ** '' Aspic'' ** '' UFO Attack'' ** '' U-boat S.O.S.'' ** '' Newton's Power'' ** '' Green Beam'' ** '' Red Zone Killer'' ** '' Rush Hour Game'' ** ドッグファイター ** Wルービック パネル ** レーザーワープ ゲーム ** バイキン・ウォーズ PC-6001mkII * 1986 ** '' Aspic'' NEC PC-8801 * 1983 ** '' Holy Sword'' ** 高速機動部隊 * 1984 ** '' Great Detective Appearance!'' ** '' Ninja Residence'' ** ''Grand Cross'' ** ''白伝説'' ** ''Lizard'' * 1985 ** ''Fantasian'' ** '' Heart of Phantasm II'' (夢幻の心臓II) * 1986 ** '' Heart of Phanta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Software House
A software company is a company whose primary products are various forms of software, software technology, distribution, and software product development. They make up the software industry. Types There are a number of different types of software companies: *There are companies selling available to use commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products, such as Microsoft's Outlook, Word and Excel, Adobe Systems's Acrobat, Illustrator and other designing tools, or Google apps like Chrome. *Many companies provide Software Development services, and have a structure to develop custom software for other companies and businesses. *Companies producing specialized commercial off-the-shelf software, such as Panorama, Hyperion, and Siebel Systems *Companies providing Software as a Service (SaaS), such as Google's email service Gmail, Voice and Maps, and companies like Salesforce and Zendesk. *Technology that mobilizes social media such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter and Parler. * *Ther ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Role-playing Game
A role-playing game (sometimes spelled roleplaying game, RPG) is a game in which players assume the roles of player character, characters in a fictional Setting (narrative), setting. Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within a narrative, either through literal acting or through a process of structured decision-making regarding character development. Actions taken within many games succeed or fail according to a formal role-playing game system, system of rules and guidelines. There are several forms of role-playing games. The original form, sometimes called the tabletop role-playing game (TRPG), is conducted through discussion, whereas in live action role-playing game, live action role-playing (LARP), players physically perform their characters' actions.(Tychsen et al. 2006:255) "LARPs can be viewed as forming a distinct category of RPG because of two unique features: (a) The players physically embody their characters, and (b) the game takes place in a physica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eye Of The Beholder (computer Game)
''Eye of the Beholder'' is a role-playing video game for personal computers and video game consoles developed by Westwood Associates. It was published by Strategic Simulations, Inc. in 1991, for the MS-DOS operating system and later ported to the Amiga, the Sega CD and the SNES. The Sega CD version features a soundtrack composed by Yuzo Koshiro and Motohiro Kawashima. A port to the Atari Lynx handheld was developed by NuFX in 1993, but was not released. In 2002, an adaptation of the same name was developed by Pronto Games for the Game Boy Advance. The game has two sequels, '' Eye of the Beholder II: The Legend of Darkmoon'', also released in 1991, and '' Eye of the Beholder III: Assault on Myth Drannor'', released in 1993. The third game, however, was not developed by Westwood, which had been acquired by Virgin Interactive in 1992 and created the ''Lands of Lore'' series instead. Plot The lords of the city of Waterdeep hire a team of adventurers to investigate an evil coming ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sword Of Kalin
is an action-RPG developed by XTALSOFT and published by DOG for the Family Computer Disk System in Japan in 1987 File:1987 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes after leaving the Port of Zeebrugge in Belgium, killing 193; Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, k .... The story ''Kalin no Tsurugi'' takes place in the peaceful Altenia Kingdom. Recently, however, monsters have been appearing. To help combat these monsters, the King calls forth his best knight: you. Your purpose is twofold: you must find the mage Gladrif and defeat the monsters terrorizing the townspeople. External links Square Enix ''Kalin no Tsurugi'' Page{{action-rpg-videogame-stub Role-playing video games Action role-playing video games Famicom Disk System games Famicom Disk System-only games Japan-exclusive video games Square (video game company) games 1987 video games Video games developed in Japan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Osaka
is a designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan. It is the capital of and most populous city in Osaka Prefecture, and the third most populous city in Japan, following Special wards of Tokyo and Yokohama. With a population of 2.7 million in the 2020 census, it is also the largest component of the Keihanshin Metropolitan Area, which is the second-largest metropolitan area in Japan and the 10th largest urban area in the world with more than 19 million inhabitants. Osaka was traditionally considered Japan's economic hub. By the Kofun period (300–538) it had developed into an important regional port, and in the 7th and 8th centuries, it served briefly as the imperial capital. Osaka continued to flourish during the Edo period (1603–1867) and became known as a center of Japanese culture. Following the Meiji Restoration, Osaka greatly expanded in size and underwent rapid industrialization. In 1889, Osaka was officially established as a municipality. The const ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
D4 Enterprise
is a Japanese video game publisher currently specializing in content delivery services like Project EGG over the Internet. Some of the titles that have been re-released include many of Compile's titles, like the ''Madō Monogatari'' games. The company has also re-released Neo Geo and MSX titles to the Virtual Console for the Wii. Games Project EGG See also *MSX *Neo Geo *Ryu Umemoto was a Japanese video game music composer, born in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture. He is known for composing soundtracks to various visual novel and shoot 'em up video games since the 1990s, for several companies including FamilySoft, C's Ware, ... * Wii Virtual Console (Japan) * Wii Virtual Console (North America) * Wii Virtual Console (PAL regions) * Wii Virtual Console (South Korea) References External linksOfficial website Amusement companies of Japan Video game companies of Japan Video game publishers Video game companies established in 2004 Japanese companies established in 2004 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fan Translation
Fan translation (or user-generated translation) refers to the unofficial translation of various forms of written or multimedia products made by fans (fan labor), often into a language in which an official translated version is not yet available. Generally, fans do not have formal training as translators but they volunteer to participate in translation projects based on interest in a specific audiovisual genre, TV series, movie, etc. Media Notable areas of fan translation include: * Fansubbing – The subtitling of movies, television programs, video games and other audiovisual media by a network of fans. For many languages, the most popular fan subtitling is of Hollywood movies and American TV dramas, while fansubs into English are largely of East Asian entertainment, particularly anime and tokusatsu. *Fan translation of video games – this practice grew with the rise of video game console emulation in the late 1990s and still mainly focuses on older classic games. These tra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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