View Full Version : Who were the developers behind the TG-16 games?
Anthony1
12-31-2003, 08:32 PM
Most of the TG-16 games say that they were developed by NEC. When it comes to the Super Nintendo, you know that Capcom did Super Ghouls and Ghosts, and you know that Irem did Super R-Type and you know that Konami did Gradius and Castlevania IV.
Yet, with the TG-16 games, most of them only list the developer as NEC or Hudson Soft. Surely these developers that created these great games kept making games after the Turbo died? Right?
Did they go on to make any classic Genny or SNES or Sega CD games? Did they go on to make PS1 and Saturn games?
We know that Sonic Team did Sonic the Hedgehog, and we know that Myamoto's team did Mario.
Yet, who did Bonk?
Did the guys that made Bonk move on to bigger and better things?
Just Curious about this.
maxlords
12-31-2003, 10:25 PM
Hudson Soft made Bonk. NEC was just the publisher for most of the TG16 stuff.
ManekiNeko
12-31-2003, 10:29 PM
A company named Red worked on Bonk's Adventure. They went on to help create Thousand Arms, the game that married role-playing games with dating simulations. They've dropped off the radar since that time, despite the fact that Thousand Arms was one of the better, and certainly more unique, RPGs I've played on the Playstation.
Most of the other games on the TurboGrafx-16 were designed by Hudson Soft, which still gets plenty of work. It's my understanding that they're the ones who make all the Mario Party games.
JR
Kid Fenris
01-01-2004, 03:01 AM
Though they're technically a part of Sega now, The Red Company’s still around. Most of their time has been occupied by the profoundly successful Sakura Taisen series (another mix of RPG and dating simulator). Red recently brought back their once-popular Tengai Makyo RPG series with a PS2 remake of Tengai Makyo II: Manjimaru, and they're supposedly at work on Tengai Makyo III: Namida, which was canceled long ago while in development for the PC-FX.
Other Red titles of note include Gate of Thunder (TurboGrafx), Gungrave (they published it for the PS2, anyway), Legendary Axe II (TurboGrafx), Tempo (32X, Saturn), Elfaria 1 and 2 (Super Famicom), and the Galaxy Fraulein Yuna series (various).
And Thousand Arms would be a pretty good RPG if its battle system wasn't so utterly boring.
maxlords
01-01-2004, 09:06 AM
Wait...so Red licensed to Hudson who licensed to NEC? BTW...Red Company rules :)
jaydubnb
01-01-2004, 12:24 PM
Wait...so Red licensed to Hudson who licensed to NEC? BTW...Red Company rules :)
Red did for Hudson what Hudson's doing for Nintendo's Mario Party. Funny how things change.
Wait...so Red licensed to Hudson who licensed to NEC? BTW...Red Company rules
The title screens of both Bonk's Adventure (and Legendary Axe II) have a copyright for Atlus. How do they fit into the equation?
Wait...so Red licensed to Hudson who licensed to NEC? BTW...Red Company rules
The title screens of both Bonk's Adventure (and Legendary Axe II) have a copyright for Atlus. How do they fit into the equation?
Sorry to bump such an old topic, but I've been wondering about this too. How does Atlus fit into the equation?
howdoin
05-12-2005, 09:15 PM
Many publishers did games for the PC Engine/TG-16 but Hudson was probably the most prolific.
NeoZeedeater
05-13-2005, 12:17 AM
Red is a co-developer it seems. They do stuff like art and graphics, which is why you always find other companies' names on their games as well.
And a lot of NEC published TG16 games were not NEC releases in Japan, like Namco's Splatterhouse and Bravoman for example.
tonyvortex
05-13-2005, 03:17 AM
i know a lot of capcom shooters were on the system but didnt actuelly say capcom directly.i think sinistron was one of those.
dojosky
05-13-2005, 03:46 AM
Side Arms (capcom but published by Radiance )
Sinistron (by IGS )
Forgotten Worlds (capcom) but by TTI/AVE
Tiger Road (Capcom) published by NEC
Buster Bros. (Capcom) published by TTI
etc..
am sure there's several more to be added to this list
Graham Mitchell
05-13-2005, 07:20 AM
Side Arms (capcom but published by Radiance )
Sinistron (by IGS )
Forgotten Worlds (capcom) but by TTI/AVE
Tiger Road (Capcom) published by NEC
Buster Bros. (Capcom) published by TTI
etc..
am sure there's several more to be added to this list
Add Tricky Kick by IGS
There's also all the Sega games (Space Harrier, Outrun, Thunder Blade, etc.). NEC Ave appears on the title screen for those, so I don't know if Sega or AVE ported them.
Cadash and Parasol Stars were developed by Taito and published in the U.S. by Working Designs.
If you want to get really confusing, look at the CD games. Many were developed by Falcom or Telenet, and published in the U.S. by NEC.
http://www.workingdesigns.com/museum/turbo/software/
It says every TG16 game's publisher and developer there.