Bandai Satellaview Zelda - Bandai Satellaview Zelda Bandai Satellaview Zelda ("BS Zelda") was an expansion to the original Legend of Zelda. It was to feature many more items and dungeons, but ceased to exist soon after its release..
Bandai - Bandai Bandai is a Japanese toy making company. It was founded in 1950. It is the world's third largest producer of toys. Bandai Visual (Emotion), produces (in conjunction with the Sunrise animation studio) and distributes many popular anime titles. These titles include Cowboy Bebop, Outlaw Star, Escaflowne, Mobile Suit Gundam and Witch Hunter Robin. Bandai America is the American distribution arm of Bandai that distributes many of those same anime titles in the United States. Bandai Games produces and distibutes video games based on Bandai properties including Mobile Suit Gundam: Zeonic Front and Mobile Suit Gundam: Journey to Jaburo. External Links: http://www.bandai.com/ http://www.bandai.co.jp/ http://www.bandai-ent.com/ http://www.bandaigames.com/ http://www.bandaivisual.co.jp/ http://www.sunrise-inc.co.jp/ http://www.hotline-web.com/.
Video game publisher - Video game publishers who are publicly traded on stock markets are not known as a successful group. Interest from investors varies with time. At present, Electronic Arts is the only third-party publisher present in the S&P 500 diversified list of large U.S. corporations. Interest from outside investors was high during two notable periods: In the early 1990s when the introduction of CD-ROM computer drives caused a great deal of hype about a multimedia revolution that would bring interactive entertainment to the masses. All Hollywood movie studios formed "interactive" divisions to leverage their intellectual property in film in this booming new media. Most of these divisions later folded after expensively producing several games that were heavy in "full-motion video" content, but light in the quality of gameplay. In the dot-com days of.
G Gundam - Gundam finished airing in Japan in early 1994, Bandai celebrated Gundam's 15th anniversary by trying something new: free the franchise from the continuity of the Universal Century (and sell more model kits). Thus, the alternate universes were born that are the settings for every TV series following Victory Gundam. Premiering in 1994, Mobile Fighter G Gundam was the first alternate universe series, and perhaps one of the most controversial. Directed by Giant Robo's Yasuhiro Imagawa, this series takes a vastly different approach to the Gundam saga. Instead of having wars between the colonies and the Earth, a fighting tournament is held to determine the ruler of the colonies. Called the Gundam Fight, it is held once every four years by the United Colonies Federation. Each country has its own representative Gundam.
Gundam - Gundam consists of, in order of release: Mobile Suit SD Gundam Mk I (1989) Mobile Suit SD Gundam Mk II (1989) SD Gundam's Counterattack (1989) Mobile Suit SD Gundam Mk III (1990) Mobile Suit SD Gundam Mk IV (1990) Mobile Suit SD Gundam Mk V (1990) SD Gundam Side Story (1990) SD Gundam Scramble (1991) SD Gundam: Dawn Of Paparu (1991) SD Gundam Festival (1993) Superior Defender (2003) Related Topics: Earth Federation Mobile Suits Newtype One-Year War Principality of Zeon Merchandise Bandai, the primary licensee of the Gundam trademark, makes a variety of products for the Gundam fan. Other companies produce unofficial toys, models, t-shirts, etc. Categories of products include the Mobile Suit In Action or MSiA action figures, and Gundam Models in several scales and complexity levels. Generally, each series.
Gundam X - X premiered in early 1996. Directed by 80's mecha veteran Shinji Takamatsu, this series was the third of Bandai's alternate universes, and the last Gundam series to air for several years. This series is a 'what if' on the Universal Century's One-Year War. What if the Zeon had dropped dozens of colonies instead of one and destroyed Earth's surface? What if most of the world's population died, leaving the survivors in a ruined Mad Max-like world? That basic premise is the setting of Gundam X, which uses the After War (AW) calendar. The series begins in AW0015, as the Earth is just beginning to recover. The star of this series is fifteen year old Garrod Ran, a member of the Vulture scavenger group that patrols the wasteland for profits. The series.
Gundam Seed - and the genetically altered known as 'Coordinators'. Like the original series, ZAFT has a head start on mobile suit design, but the Earth Alliance quickly catches up with its five prototype Gundams. With ZAFT having stolen four of the prototypes, young pilot Kira Yamato takes the Strike Gundam and is forced to fight his old friend Athrun Zara. The series began broadcasting in Japan in October 2002 and is currently licensed by Bandai Visual. The American edition is planned to be broadcast on Cartoon Network on October 2004 on Toonami. Warning: Wikipedia contains spoilers Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Cast & Crew 2 Characters 3 Mobile Suits 4 Battleships and Spacecraft 5 See also: Cast & Crew Cast Athrun Zara - Ishida Akira Cagalli Yula Athha - Shindou Naomi Dearka Elthman.
F-Zero - environments. Such techniques in games were considered to be revolutionary in a time when most games were restricted to static/flat backgrounds and 2 dimensional (2D) objects. F-Zero 2 (1995) - Pseudo-sequel to the original. Released only in Japan, via the Bandai Satellaview add-on to the Super Famicom. F-Zero X (1998) - First true sequel. Rendered fully in 3D, released exclusively for the Nintendo 64. F-Zero Maximum Velocity (2001) - First Game Boy incarnation of the series. Very similar to the original SNES title (unlike other GBA - SNES ports however, this has different new tracks from the original). F-Zero GX/AX (2003) - Latest in the series. Simultaneous release on Nintendo GameCube (GX) and to arcades (AX). Co-developed by Nintendo and Sega's Amusement Vision team (known for the Super Monkey Ball game.
Final Fantasy Origins - Fantasy II on the Playstation platform. Final Fantasy I and II were originally developed for the Nintendo Entertainment System and later remade for Bandai Wonderswan Color. The graphics have been enhanced to Final Fantasy V quality. The soundtracks have been enhanced to Final Fantasy IX quality. The Final Fantasy Origins versions of Final Fantasy I and Final Fantasy II are based on the Bandai Wonderswan Color versions. The remastered soundtrack of Final Fantasy I was arranged by Nobuo Uematsu. The remastered soundtrack of Final Fantasy II was arranged by Tsuyoshi Sekito, the music composer for Brave Fencer Musashi. Percussion was added for the Playstation versions. Final Fantasy Origins was released in Europe on March 13, 2003, and in North America on April 8, 2003. It was translated in England by Square.
Digimon - are four seasons: the former two make one storyline, and the latter two, Tamers and Frontier respectively, have similar but unrelated plots. The third season makes reference to the televison and commercial enterprises of the first two. In addition, there are several movies and video games based on the three storylines. Digimon is produced by Saban and Bandai. Originally, the series showed on Fox Network's Fox Kids and Fox Family, but after Disney's acquisition of Fox Family (renamed ABC Family) during the third season, the first three seasons stayed on ABC Family and the fourth premiered on UPN. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Season One 2 The Movies 3 Season Two 4 Season Three 5 Season Four Season One A group of young teens named Tai, Mimi, Joe, Izzy, Matt, T.K.,.
.hack//SIGN - 2002, but has since been adapted for American audiences and shown on Cartoon Network starting February 1, 2003, and has been more recently distributed on DVD by Bandai Entertainment. .hack//SIGN follows the story of Tsukasa (司) as he struggles to cope with his inner self, his past, and his inability to log out of the MMORPG The World. The series can be fairly confusing for those who do not regularly watch the series, and it is very much integrated in many ways with the rest of the series storylines, further complicating the plot for the uninitiated. The background music and opening and ending themes, Obsession and Yasashii Yoake (優しい夜明け) were composed by Yuki Kajiura (梶浦由記), who is also known for her compositions for the anime series Noir. The latter two songs.
.hack - .hack is a multimedia franchise primarily created by Bandai. The franchise primarily surrounds a future in which one operating system, ALTIMIT OS, is used by all computers in the world due to various computer viruses (in particular, one named Pluto's Kiss) that crashed the internet in the mid-2000s. ALTIMIT OS is now the only major operating system in the world due to its stability and the difficulty found in crashing the system. The primary focus of the franchise however is the popular MMORPG The World, which has over one million users upon its launch. The series focuses, however, on a particular set of incidents termed The Twilight Incident in which multiple users were forced into a coma while playing the game. Most of the stories surround an AI named Aura (アウラ).
.hack (video games) - are a set of four video games for the Playstation 2 produced by Bandai and Cyber Connect 2. The plot of the games follows the story of the .hackers Kite (カイト) and Black Rose (ブラックローズ) and their attempts to find out what caused the sudden coma of Kite's friend, Orca (オルカ). Included with each game is an extra DVD containing an OVA from .hack//Liminality. The .hack games are particularly unique for their ability to share save data between each release, upgrading it for each release to make it playable and carrying over save data for such. The four volumes that comprise the series of games are: .hack//Infection (Japan: 感染拡大 or Infection Expansion) .hack//Mutation (Japan: 悪性変異 or Malignant Mutation) .hack//Outbreak (Japan: 侵食汚染 or Erosion Pollution) .hack//Quarantine (Japan: 絶対包囲 or Absolute Encirclement).
Apple Pippin - Pippin was a games console designed by Apple Computer and Bandai in the mid 1990s. It was based around a 66 MHz PowerPC 603e processor, and ran a cut-down version of the Mac OS. The idea was to create a very cheap computer that was mostly aimed at playing games, and also could function as a network computer. It featured a 4x CD-ROM drive and a video output that could connect to a standard television monitor. By the time Pippin was due to be released, in 1996, the market was already dominated by the Sony PlayStation and Sega consoles, machines which were generally a lot more powerful as a games machine than the more general purpose architecture of Pippin. In addition, there was no ready-to-go software for it, since the Mac.
Tetris Attack - the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in North America and Europe. It was released for the Bandai Satellaview attachment to the Super Famicom as Yoshi's Panepon in Japan. The game is inspired by the original Tetris, and started out as a Super Famicom title called "Panel de Pon". This title featured a look which could be viewed as "girly", or hyperfeminine, by any number of people, with lots of whimsical, fairy-like characters. When Nintendo decided to release the addictive puzzle game to North America, they dropped the fairies in favor of characters from Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island for the purpose of making it more appealing to image conscious young male audience, a significant part of the video game market at the time. It was later released for Nintendo Game Boy,.
The Vision of Escaflowne - The music, composed by Yoko Kanno and Hajime Mizoguchi, is of a decidedly Middle Eastern flavor, though incorporating such disparate elements as western choir and electro-pop. The anime marks the debut of Maaya Sakamoto as the voice of the main character Hitomi Kanzaki and the singer of the opening song Yakusoku wa Iranai. Bandai's now-defunct Anime Village label condensed the entire 26-episode story arc into three subtitled VHS tapes in 1998, marketed as the Vision of Escaflowne Best Collection. This version was briefly aired on the Fox Kids network in another edited form between August and October of 2000, but was canceled while still in early plot development, probably due to the complex themes presented in the later episodes. A 23-episode version, heavily cut for content and timing, and with a.
Crest of the Stars - nobility and the story of Crest of the Stars picks up as he meets the young Abh princess, Lafiel as they are about to travel to military school for Jinto's further training. However, in the midst of their travels, Lafiel and Jinto (along with the Abh ship Gosroth) find themselves at the very beginnings of a war between the Abh Empire and the nations of humankind. Crest of the Stars was released in Japan in 1999 and in the United States by Bandai in 2001. At the end of 2002, TechTV announced that Crest of the Stars was to be one of the initial titles as part of their new Anime Unleashed programming and began broadcast at the end of 2002 and through 2003. Characters Viscountess Abriel Nei Dobrusk Paryunu Lafiel.
Timeline of video games - 6th annual Game Critics Awards For The Best Of E3 Gama Network (a division of CMP Media LLC, owned by United Business Media) hosts the 5th annual Independent Games Festival (IGF) GDC (Game Developers Conference) hosts the 3rd annual Game Developers Choice Awards Reuters, Associated Press:: Reported in late 2003 that Nintendo Co. Ltd. brought shares from Japanese toy and animation conglomerate Bandai Co. Ltd. making Nintendo one of Bandai's top 10 shareholders. GameSpot.com:: Reported in late 2003 in a news story, a rebuttal regarding two statements from Nintendo and Bandai execs denying a potential Nintendo takeover of Bandai. According to the story, Nintendo is working with a Japanese banking firm that has Bandai and Nintendo as their corporate clients to try to take over Bandai. Dreamworks Studios, Tecmo:: Released a.
SaGa (Video Game Franchise) - (the Romancing SaGa trilogy) in the series were marketed exclusively in Japan. Originally in monochrome, the first game in the series, Makaitoushi SaGa (a.k.a. Final Fantasy Legend in the U.S.), was remade for Bandai Wonderswan Color being made over from monochrome 8-bit graphics to color 16-bit graphics. The original version is included with the enhanced version on the Wonderswan Color cartridge. Usually, the original versions are not included with the enhanced remakes. SaGa Frontier is the first SaGa game to be released in the U.S. since SaGa 3 (Final Fantasy Legend III). SaGa's creator Akitoshi Kawazu is the founder of Game Designers Studio. SaGa is known to have gameplay superior to that of Final Fantasy. While Final Fantasy focuses on storyline, music, and graphics, SaGa primarily focuses on gameplay, concepts, and.
Scryed - 01. Kazuma 02. Ryuhou 03. Holy 04. Big Magnum 05. Mimori Kiryu 06. Zetsuei 07. Asuka Tachibana 08. Mad Script 09. Shell Bullet 10. Super Crisis 11. Alters 12. Kunihiko Kimishima 13. Lost Ground 14. Kyoji Mujo 15. The Stray Man 16. Sou Kigetsuki 17. Ayase Terada 18. Straight Cougar 19. The Three Sisters of Eternal Summer 20. Kanami Yuta 21. Holy Eye 22. Martine Jigmar 23. Shireece Adjourni 24. Fist 25. Native 26. Dream External Link Bandai Entertainment's Official s-CRY-ed Homepage ZeWrestler's Scryed Web page.
