Spike Chunsoft

Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd., 「株式会社スパイク・チュンソフト」 in Japanese, is a video game development and localisation company based in Japan. They especially focus on role-playing games, visual novels and adventure games. It was founded as its predecessor, Chunsoft Co., Ltd., on April 9, 1984 and merged with Spike in 2012. The company is owned by Dwango.

Overview
Spike Chunsoft is a merger between Spike and Chunsoft. Chunsoft was responsible for the development of DQ1-DQ4 for FC, DQ5 for SFC, DQ1 and 2 for SFC, and the Torneko series. The company president is Koichi Nakamura, and the company name comes from one of the tiles used in his hobby, mahjong, which is also his nickname, "Chun". The company's own-brand games include their Visual Novel series such as Otogirisō and Banshee's Last Cry, and the Mystery Dungeon series such as Shiren the Wanderer. The company is good at popularising newer or minor game genres, and has produced some of the pioneering works of RPGs and Visual Novel games in Japan. In Shiren the Wanderer 2, a Float-o-copier and Alefgard secretly appeared as small stories. There are also Dragon Quest monsters in Shiren the Wanderer 4 and 5.

Dragon Quest series development
Chunsoft's main job was to consider the wishes of Yuji Horii, the scenario writer and game designer for Dragon Quest, with their role in programming and they were left in charge of most of the visual effects. The idea to make the party and carriages fly with the spell Zoom in DQ4 was born from the discussions between the Chunsoft programmers. In DQ3, the opening was cut due to lack of memory, but in DQ4, Chunsoft were able to find enough memory capacity to add an opening to the game.

Becoming Spike Chunsoft
In around the year 2000, perhaps due to personnel problems, there were some insufficiently debugged RPGs developed by Chunsoft and other development problems. On April 21, 2005, the company was acquired by Dwango, a company known for its cellphone content and the operator of Nico Nico Douga (now niconico), and became a subsidiary of the company. On April 1, 2012, the company merged with Spike, a game company also under the Dwango umbrella, to become Spike Chunsoft.

Other works
Other works from Spike Chunsoft (as a developer and/or publisher) include creating games for the following games and series:
 * Otogirisō
 * Banshee's Last Cry
 * Shiren the Wanderer
 * Homeland
 * Kowa-Oto
 * Zombie Daisuki
 * Shin Kamaitachi no Yoru
 * Zero Escape
 * Door Door
 * The Portopia Serial Murder Case
 * Famicom Jump
 * See more...

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