:Kogado Studio
{{Short description|Japanese video game studio}}
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{{lang|ja|株式会社工画堂スタジオ}}
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August, 1960 (public trading)
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|location_city=Tokyo
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|industry=Video games
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|num_employees=43 In total
Kogado Software Products:
18 (as of June 25, 2009)
Kogado Studio:
25 (as of 24 April 2012)
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{{nihongo|Kogado Studio|株式会社工画堂スタジオ}} is a Japanese company which currently deals in graphic design and video game development.
The company was founded in 1916 as {{nihongo|Zuan to Hanga Tani Kogado|図案と版画 谷工画堂}} and originally handled design and printing. In the late 1960s Kogado entered the toy market and handled the Japanese localization of board games from Milton Bradley before creating original board games for Takara. The company later entered video game development in the 1980s.{{cite web | url=https://news.denfaminicogamer.jp/interview/211206b | title=天皇陛下ご著書の装釘から『デュエマ』のイラスト、『覇邪の封印』まで! 多彩な事業を手がける1916年創業の100年企業「工画堂スタジオ」が経営危機に直面してもゲームを作り続ける理由とは!? | date=6 December 2021 }}
Kogado has released adventure, strategy, and bishōjo games for the MSX, MSX2, PlayStation 2 and PC, including such titles as Symphonic Rain, Gadget Trial, Little Witch Parfait, Tristia of the Deep-Blue Sea (which has been made an original video animation), and Power Dolls. The studio has a number of teams working together.
Subsidiaries
- KOGADO STUDIO, Inc. Design Production Division: Graphic design, digital content, corporate planning.
- KOGADO Software Products: Video game studio.
List of teams in Kogado Studio
- Usagi-san Team
- Kuroneko-san Team
- Iruka-san Team
- Kuma-san Team
- Shimarisu-san Team{{Cite web|url=http://www.kogado.com/html/kogado.htm|title=株式会社工画堂スタジオ ソフトウェア開発部}}
- Panda-san Team
- Kitsune-san Team
- Shukujo Team{{Cite web|url=http://www.kogado.com/html/teammap.htm|title=Kogado teams|publisher=Kogado|access-date=2008-04-03|language=ja}}
List of developed video games
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=Kuma-san Team=
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See also
References
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External links
- [http://www.kogado.com Kogado's official website] (Japanese and Chinese)
- [http://www.kogado.com/html/kogado.htm Kogado's official production website]
- [http://www.generation-msx.nl/index.php?url=/msxdb/index?developer=KOGADO&maxrows=25&orderby=system&order=ASC&op=search List of Kogado games on MSX]
- [http://www.gamefaqs.com/features/company/72895.html GameFAQs entry for Kogado Studio]
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Category:Video game companies of Japan
Category:Video game development companies
Category:Japanese companies established in 1960