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The Biggest Game Dev You've Never Heard Of

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the busy-little-ninjas dept.

simoniker writes "Japan-based game developer Tose has 1,000 employees, and has created 1,100 game SKUs since 1979 (including Final Fantasy GBA versions, though they can't mention it in this interview!), but they're basically unknown, because they're 'game development ninjas', and 'refuse to put [their] names on the game'. Odd stuff."

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  1. Re:Japanese vs American attitudes by AKAImBatman · · Score: 4, Informative

    Activision was founded primarily so that individual devs could get credit for their games

    Arguably, that's because they weren't getting any money for their work. If the devs were paid what they were worth, I can assure you that they wouldn't have complained as much.

    What's funny is that Todd Frye (the creator of Atari Pacman for the 2600) got both money in the form of royalties AND fame for his work on PacMan! Even more amusing is that it was a rushed translation, and Mr. Frye didn't like PacMan! Some people have all the luck.

    Go Figure.

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  2. Re:Game development ninjas? by fm6 · · Score: 1, Informative
    That page is just about as Hollywood as you can get. "Ninjas fight all the time!" What crap.

    The Wikipedia page on ninjas is pretty good. Certainly gives a better notion of what a ninja was.