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Whodunit: Falcon
Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2021 1:38 am
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Falcon is a company that co-owns Sokoban and did a lot of work for Sunsoft.
http://gdri.smspower.org/wiki/index.php/Falcon The Falcon website says they worked on two Game Gear games. One of them appears to be Shanghai II. ("Falcon" is credited as director.) Fray: Shugyou-hen may be the other one. (It has the same Sega startup logo as Shanghai II.) |
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Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2021 10:26 pm |
Programmer Takashi Makimoto has written a series of posts called PC Game Development in the Early Days (黎明期のPCゲーム開発記) in which he chronicles his time in the game industry. In one post, he talks about starting his very first job at Falcon, where his first project was to convert the action RPG Sorcerian to the MSX2.
At the time, Falcon was based in Nishikasugai District, Aichi Prefecture, and had a development office in Osaka. Makimoto worked in the Osaka office. He recalls there were three people stationed there: the general manager, a senior staff member, and himself. The general manager was developing a Famicom "falling game," and the senior staff member was developing the Game Gear version of Fray: Shugyou-hen. The relevant text:
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