Shmup Company Information...

Harlequin · Post by **Harlequin** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 5:07 am

Hi

I havent been posting for awhile and just browsing the forums
off and on the past year or so, just getting back into Shmups
and after searching online for Shmup information and also reading
many threads here i was wondering if anyone had a definitive
list of a timeline for various good shmup companies what happened to
them and which are best now with those employees from past companies?

CAVE, PSIKYO, RAIZING, Seibu Kaihatsu, Milestone, Triangle Service,
G.REV, Alfa System, Skonec, Takumi.

These are the companies i have games lists from although not all are stil around.
Im sure there are some i have missed.

Stuff like whats happened to the employees from PSIKYO, RAIZING and Seibu Kaihatsu?
Have they gone on to work on other SHmups at other companies?

Im pretty sure i read somewhere Cave and PSIKYO both got formed from
an older company when it went under?

Thanks for any help and information, Cheers!

Harlequin

Macaw · Post by **Macaw** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 5:50 am

Companies:

Jaleco
NMK
Data East
Taito
Namco
Tecmo
Irem
Capcom
Video System
Toaplan
Konami
Dooyong
Nichibutsu
Allumer

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 7:22 am

psikyo are dead
raizing are dead (altho their spirit still lives in yagawa who now works for cave)
seibu are dead
triangle service might as well be dead (keep releaseing terrible games)
g.rev are alive and kicking (new release coming up)
Cave are doing buisness like never before!

alfa system, takumi and the others are either dead or extremely dormant.

dont forget Moss who have an upcoming release (or already released?) in Raiden 4

Skyline · Post by **Skyline** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 8:04 am

sven666 wrote: alfa system, takumi and the others are either dead or extremely dormant.

Takumi seems to be doing a lot of co-developing with Hudson these days. Some folks from Takumi helped develop Fishing Master for the Wii, and the upcoming(?) Elemental Monster for the DS.

shoe-sama · Post by **shoe-sama** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 8:40 am

taito g darius team -> g.rev
seibu raiden fighter employees -> gulti (hired by g.rev for some recent game, forgot what it was called)
toaplan -> cave + raizing
video system employees -> psikyo

everything else i can think of has been mentioned already

dont forget Moss who have an upcoming release (or already released?) in Raiden 4

there's 2-ALLs already lol

zinger · Post by **zinger** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 8:59 am

Someone should make a family tree.

shoe-sama wrote:toaplan -> cave + raizing

Also Toaplan -> Takumi.
Compile -> Raizing
Compile -> Milestone
KID -> Raizing

Fighter17 · Post by **Fighter17** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 1:19 pm

zinger wrote:KID -> Raizing

Who's KID?

lgb · Post by **lgb** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 1:21 pm

Fighter17 wrote:
zinger wrote:KID -> Raizing
Who's KID?

I think it's these guys. Wonder what caused that to happen.

Fighter17 · Post by **Fighter17** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 1:29 pm

LGB wrote:I think it's these guys. Wonder what caused that to happen.

Their only shmup was Recca?

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 1:36 pm

Fighter17 wrote:
LGB wrote:I think it's these guys. Wonder what caused that to happen.
Their only shmup was Recca?

and burai fighter.. but yeah that was it, apparently they were big in the dating sim scene (not really my cup of tea

), i had no idea they existed as long as 2006...

MathU · Post by **MathU** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 2:20 pm

This Edge article gives some nice insight into G.Rev, Milestone, and Triangle Service:

http://www.edge-online.co.uk/archives/2 ... l_guns.php

unsane · Post by **unsane** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 5:06 pm

Hudson Soft (no longer dev shmups?; shmup employees -> ?)
Milestone is still alive
SNK Playmore (no longer dev shmups?; shmup employees -> ?)
Toaplan -> Gazelle (dead; shmup employees -> ?)
Technosoft (dead; shmup employees -> ?)

Ceph · Post by **Ceph** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 5:15 pm

unsane wrote:Hudson Soft (no longer dev shmups?; shmup employees -> ?)

Star Soldier for Wii.

zinger · Post by **zinger** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 6:13 pm

Irem -> Aicom -> Yumekobo -> ?

Not confirmed.