Tose (company)

Tose Co., Ltd.
株式会社トーセ
TypeKabushiki kaisha (public)
TYO: 4728
IndustryVideo games
FoundedNovember 1979; 42 years ago (1979-11)
Headquarters,
Key people
  • Shigeru Saito
    (Chairman and CEO)
  • Yasuhito Watanabe
    (President and COO)
ProductsThe Legendary Starfy series
Game & Watch Gallery series
Number of employees
1,000 (2015)
WebsiteOfficial website

Tose Co., Ltd. (TYO: 4728) (also called Tose Software) is a Japanese video game development company based in Kyoto. It is mostly known for developing Nintendo's Game & Watch Gallery series, various Dragon Ball games, as well as other Nintendo products. Tose has developed or co-developed over 1,000 games since the company's inception in 1979, but is virtually never credited in the games themselves (an exception to this is Game & Watch Gallery 4 and The Legendary Starfy series, as Tose shares the copyright with Nintendo). "We're always behind the scenes," said Masa Agarida, Vice President of Tose's U.S. division. "Our policy is not to have a vision. Instead, we follow our customers' visions. Most of the time we refuse to put our name on the games, not even staff names." As such, Tose has gained a reputation for being a "ghost developer".

History

In November 1979, Tose was established at Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto as an independent entity from Toa Seiko Co., Ltd. In April 1984, they began developing video games and a year later educational software. Tose's head office was moved to Otokuni-gun, Kyoto Prefecture in May 1986. Event software development began in April 1987. In July 1988, a new head office in Yamazaki, Kyoto was completed. Starting in May 1990, Tose began developing software for Game Boy and Super Famicom (Super NES).

In August 1999, Tose was listed on the Osaka Securities Exchange 2nd Section and Kyoto Stock Exchange. In October of that year, the Kyoto Head office was opened at Shijo-Karasuma, which integrated the business of head office functions and the Karasuma CG Center. On 27 September 2000, Tose was listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange 2nd Section. In August 2001, they were listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange 1st Section and Osaka Securities Exchange 1st Section.

On 18 December 2007, Tose announced the leakage of its business information onto the Internet, discovered a day before. The leak included 10 pieces of information relating to customer names, development cases, development contents, development fees and reception time.

On September 1, 2011 Tose announced the separation of the amusement machine development business from the 2nd game development department (ゲーム事業部開発2部) into a separate amusement machine developer (AM開発部).

List of games developed by Tose

NOTE: Some of these titles are merely believed or assumed to be developed by Tose, due to information compiled by various amateur and professional journalists. Most have not been officially confirmed as Tose-developed products by any of the games' publishers, co-developers, or Tose themselves. Many of the games released by Bandai, Tomy Corporation, Jaleco, Taito, Namco, Tonkin House were developed by Tose.

See also Category:Tose (company) games

Arcade

Family Computer/Nintendo Entertainment System

Famicom Disk System

Super Famicom/Super NES

Game Boy

Game Boy Color

Game Boy Advance

Virtual Boy

PlayStation

PlayStation 2

GameCube

PlayStation 3

PlayStation 4

PlayStation 5

PlayStation Portable

PlayStation Vita

Nintendo DS

Nintendo 3DS

Wii U

Nintendo Switch

Dreamcast

PC

  • GONG! Online (2007)

Android, iOS

  • Fight League (2017)
  • Nijigasaki High School Idol Club TOKIMEKI RunRuns (2022)

Games ported by Tose

Tose has ported a few games, including Square and Enix games for the Nintendo Entertainment System and Super NES.

Notes

  1. ^ Japanese: 株式会社トーセ, Hepburn: Kabushiki-gaisha Tōse

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