Crea-Tech () was a Japanese

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based in Koto, Tokyo,

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, which was founded by Hiroshi Miyaoka in 1988. The company was best known for developing the role-playing video game series ''

Metal Max is a role-playing video game series created by Hiroshi Miyaoka and his studio Crea-Tech. The first title was developed by Crea-Tech in collaboration with Data East, and was published by Data East in 1991. Due to the bankruptcy of Data East and ...

''. They also developed many

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s. The company developed

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s mainly, but also had some

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s and

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Products

* ''Metal Max'' series ** ''

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** '' Metal Max 2'' –

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** '' Metal Max 3'' –

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* '' Tenkuu no Restaurant'' –

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* '' Tenkuu no Restaurant Hello! Project Ver.'' - PlayStation * '' Tower Dream'' – SNES, PlayStation * '' Itadaki Street 3'' –

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* ''

CATAN ''Catan'', previously known as ''The Settlers of Catan'' or simply ''Settlers'', is a multiplayer board game designed by Klaus Teuber. It was first published in 1995 in Germany by Franckh-Kosmos Verlag (Kosmos) as ''Die Siedler von Catan'' (). ...

'' – PC, PS2 * ''

Pikiinya! is a Japan-exclusive action-puzzle video game developed by Crea-Tech and published by ASCII Entertainment, ASCII, which was released in 1997 for the Super Famicom. Summary ''Pikiinya!'' takes the Tetris-esque formula of blocks falling from the ...

'' – SNES * '' Genjū Ryodan'' – SNES * ''

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'' – Mobile

References

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