Artoon
 | |
| Company type | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Industry | Video games |
| Founded | August 27, 1999[1] |
| Defunct | 2010 |
| Fate | Absorbed into AQ Interactive (parent company) |
| Headquarters | Yokohama, Japan[2] |
Key people | Naoto Ohshima (founder)[1] |
| Owner | AQ Interactive |
Artoon Co., Ltd. (株式会社アートゥーン Kabushiki-Gaisha Ātūn) was a Japanese video game developer established in 1999. It became a subsidiary of AQ Interactive in May 2004 and became a wholly owned subsidiary in June 2005. The team was primarily affiliated in the United States with Microsoft Xbox and Xbox 360 projects, although they had also worked with Hudson Soft and Nintendo on other platforms.
Key Artoon personnel include
Yoji Ishii, Manabu Kusunoki, Hidetoshi Takeshita, Yutaka Sugano, Masamichi Harada, Takuya Matsumoto and Naoto Ohshima. When the company formed, it drew personnel and talent from several of Sega's development teams, particularly those which worked on Sonic the Hedgehog (created by Ōshima), and Panzer Dragoon.[citation needed] The developer had approximately 85 employees. The company's focus was to create original game content for various consoles.[2]
Artoon became defunct when the parent company, AQ Interactive, filed for bankruptcy.
Artoon was situated in
Okinawa
prefecture, Japan.
Artoon, along with feelplus and Cavia, were all absorbed into parent company AQ Interactive.[3]
Games developed
| Year | Title | Publisher(s) | Platform(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Pinobee: Wings of Adventure | Hudson Soft | Game Boy Advance, PlayStation |
| 2002 | The King of Fighters EX: Neo-Blood |
Game Boy Advance | |
| 2002 | Ghost Vibration | Infogrames Europe[5] |
PlayStation 2 |
| 2002 | Pinobee and Phoebee | Hudson Soft | Game Boy Advance |
| 2002 | Ghost Trap | Eidos Interactive | |
| 2002 | Blinx: The Time Sweeper | Microsoft Game Studios |
Xbox |
| 2004 | Blinx 2: Masters of Time and Space | ||
| 2004 | Yoshi Topsy-Turvy |
Nintendo | Game Boy Advance |
| 2005 | Swords of Destiny | Marvelous Entertainment | PlayStation 2 |
| 2006 | Blue Dragon | Microsoft Game Studios | Xbox 360 |
| 2007 | Vampire Rain | AQ Interactive | Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 |
| 2007 | Yoshi's Island DS | Nintendo | Nintendo DS |
| 2008 | The World of Golden Eggs: Nori Nori Rhythm-kei |
AQ Interactive | Wii |
| 2008 | Away: Shuffle Dungeon | Nintendo DS | |
| 2009 | The World of Golden Eggs: Nori Nori Uta Dekichatte Kei
| ||
| 2009 | Echoshift | Sony Computer Entertainment | PlayStation Portable |
| 2010 | Club Penguin: Game Day! |
Disney Interactive Studios | Wii |
| 2010 | FlingSmash | Nintendo | |
| 2011 | The Last Story |
See also
References
- ^ a b Official Artoon Profile Page. Archived August 4, 2008, at the Wayback Machine Retrieved on August 29, 2008 (in Japanese)
- ^ a b Official Artoon Profile Page. Archived June 12, 2008, at the Wayback Machine Retrieved on August 29, 2008
- ^ "Artoon And Feelplus Also Absorbed Into AQ Interactive // Siliconera". www.siliconera.com. Archived from the original on August 17, 2010.
- ^ "Ghost Vibration?". June 5, 2002.
- ^ "Atari UK". www.uk.atari.com. Archived from the original on August 17, 2004. Retrieved October 4, 2022.