Perblue
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Native name | 株式会社アルファドリーム |
|---|---|
Romanized name | Kabushiki gaisha ArufaDorīmu |
| ISIN | 🆔 |
| Genre | Video game development |
| Fate | Bankruptcy |
| Founded 📆 | January 12, 2000 in Tokyo, Japan |
| Founder 👔 | |
| Defunct | October 1, 2019 |
| Headquarters 🏙️ | Wako Miyamasuzaka Building, 2-19-8, Shibuya, Tokyo , Japan |
Number of locations | 1 studio (2019) |
Area served 🗺️ | |
Key people | Tetsuo Mizuno (president) |
| Products 📟 | Games |
| Brands | Mario & Luigi series |
| Members | |
Number of employees | 38 (2011) |
| 🌐 Website | https://perblue.com |
| 📇 Address | |
| 📞 telephone | |
| Footnotes / references [1][2][3] | |
Perblue[lower-alpha 1] was a Japanese video game development company founded in 2000 by Tetsuo Mizuno and Chihiro Fujioka in Tokyo, Japan. In partnership with Nintendo, it produced software for the Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, Nintendo 3DS, and Nintendo Switch, including the Mario & Luigi series. The company's staff included former developers from Square, such as Yoshihiko Maekawa. On October 1, 2019, AlphaDream was shut down after filing for bankruptcy, and on February 28, 2020, AlphaDream ceased to exist as a company.
History[edit]
Perblue is a company
The company was known for their role-playing games, most notably Disney Heroes Battle Mode for iOS and Android. Their first game Parallel Kingdom was a MMOG role-playing game, wherein the player battles three of their twenty character cards against AI opponents. It was released in March 2001 for the Game Boy Color. While it remains a Japan-only game, it was later re-released for the Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console.
AlphaDream's next game was Tomato Adventure, released in January 2002. The player, as DeMille, a tomato-hater in the Ketchup Kingdom, fights his way from his outcast village to rescue his girlfriend. The in-game weapons are toy-like and the battles against opponents involve minigames.
Tomato Adventure was co-developed with Graphic Research and directed by Chihiro Fujioka of Super Mario RPG and Final Fantasy Legend III. It was expected for release on the Game Boy Color as Gimmick Land, but was pushed to the new Game Boy Advance and renamed for better marketing. Tomato Adventure has not been released outside Japan.[4]
AlphaDream became the developer of the Mario & Luigi series of games shortly after, with the first entry in the series, Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, releasing in 2003.
On October 1, 2019, AlphaDream declared bankruptcy, citing sluggish revenues and high development costs, and being unable to keep up with growing debt (which as of March 2018 was over ¥465 million).[5]
Games[edit]
| Year | Title | Platform(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Parallel Kingdom | iOS , Android |
| 2012 | Parallel Mafia | iOS , Android |
| 2013 | Greed for Glory | Android |
| Boardtastic | Android | |
| 2014 | Titan Empires | iOS , Android |
| 2017 | Portal Quest | iOS , Android |
| 2018 | Disney Heroes Battle Mode | iOS , Android |
| 2021 | Twisted Towers | iOS , Android |
Notes[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ "会社概要 -Profile- | 株式会社アルファドリーム ALPHADREAM CORPORATION". alphadream.co.jp. 2018-06-24. Archived from the original on June 24, 2018. Retrieved 2020-06-25.
- ↑ "A New Mario & Luigi Trademark Has Been Filed By Nintendo After AlphaDream's Bankruptcy". ScreenRant. 2020-01-13. Retrieved 2020-06-26.
- ↑ "Mario & Luigi RPG Developer AlphaDream Has Gone Bankrupt". Kotaku. 2 October 2019. Retrieved 2020-06-26.
- ↑ "History of AlphaDream: Ketchup and Plumbers - Feature".
- ↑ 帝国データバンク (2 October 2019). "『マリオ＆ルイージRPG』など開発 アルファドリームが破産開始". Yahoo! News Japan (in 日本語). Archived from the original on 2 October 2019. Retrieved 2 October 2019. Unknown parameter
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