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Title: Your favorite 8/16 bit developers
Post by: Nando on December 17, 2013, 02:58:57 AM
I've gotten more and more into researching developers histories and games. Here are a few of my favorite

Compile
Telenet
Face
Working Desings


which developers have stuck in your head over the years?

Title: Re: Your favorite 8/16 bit developers
Post by: Digi.k on December 17, 2013, 04:19:30 AM
RED
Konami - 8/16 bit imo was their golden era
Nintendo
Taito

Title: Re: Your favorite 8/16 bit developers
Post by: Arkhan on December 17, 2013, 05:10:40 AM
Origin (computer)
Epyx (Computer)
Konami
SNK
Hudson/RED
anyone who made RPGs.
Title: Re: Your favorite 8/16 bit developers
Post by: jeffhlewis on December 17, 2013, 05:20:55 AM
Game Arts
Dempa
Sierra
Sega AM2 and AM3
Title: Re: Your favorite 8/16 bit developers
Post by: Black Tiger on December 17, 2013, 05:31:45 AM
Westone
Sega
Falcom
RED
Hudson
Capcom
Title: Re: Your favorite 8/16 bit developers
Post by: esteban on December 17, 2013, 06:35:17 AM
Data East.
Data West.
Title: Re: Your favorite 8/16 bit developers
Post by: majors on December 17, 2013, 07:35:44 AM
Treasure
Treasure
Compile

I'd say Konami but they're big and supposed to make good games.
Title: Re: Your favorite 8/16 bit developers
Post by: KingDrool on December 17, 2013, 07:46:36 AM
Nintendo? Anybody?...

Compile, Konami, Hudson/Red, Capcom, Working Designs/Telenet.
Title: Re: Your favorite 8/16 bit developers
Post by: bob on December 17, 2013, 08:16:51 AM
Jaleco = quality
Title: Re: Your favorite 8/16 bit developers
Post by: Opethian on December 17, 2013, 08:31:20 AM
NMK
Seibu Kaihatsu
Toaplan
Title: Re: Your favorite 8/16 bit developers
Post by: lukester on December 17, 2013, 09:24:34 AM
For 16-bit, will also say why

God tier:

Nintendo-only the best
Capcom-large variety of quality and quantity
Taito-magical arcade games (I would say Taito is more Disneyish than Nintendo)
Hudson-top tier developer/maker of the PC Engine. Nuff said.

Great tier:

Namco-lots of creative and fun arcade ports, but some crap too.
IREM-not a whole lot, but some lovely games. Incredible PCE conversions though
SEGA-awesome games, but not on the level of Nintendo

Good tier:

Toaplan-good shmups, ALL Your Base meme is amazing. Graphics are wonky though, and difficulty is strange
Konami-overally mostly good games, the rare masterpiece though

Meh tier:

Data East: love Bloody Wolf, that's about it
Jaleco: could not care about their games
Title: Re: Your favorite 8/16 bit developers
Post by: bob on December 17, 2013, 10:30:22 AM
Astyanax
Power Blade
Bases Loaded

All worth the price of admission.
I was a sunsoft fan too.
Title: Re: Your favorite 8/16 bit developers
Post by: Tatsujin on December 17, 2013, 12:41:23 PM
lol no IREM love?

Konami, Hudoson/Red, Sega (arcade only), Capcom, IREM, Taito, Namco, Toaplan, Nintendo, UPL, Data East...

to be honest, there are so many good ones and they all had their excellent games of their own.
Title: Re: Your favorite 8/16 bit developers
Post by: ParanoiaDragon on December 17, 2013, 03:03:27 PM
Falcom
Westone
Compile
Red
Konami
Irem
Telenet
Taito
Epyx
SNK
Hudson
Capcom
Data East
Treasure
Nintendo
Namco
Title: Re: Your favorite 8/16 bit developers
Post by: Xak on December 17, 2013, 03:11:43 PM
Micro Cabin
IREM
Working Designs
Telenet
Enix
Squaresoft
Hudson


and

anyone who made RPGs.
Title: Re: Your favorite 8/16 bit developers
Post by: TR0N on December 17, 2013, 07:28:16 PM
Capcom
SNK
Konami
Compile
Sunsoft
Data East
Irem
Falcom
Taito
Treasure
Telenet
Wolf Team
Hudson
Sega
Title: Re: Your favorite 8/16 bit developers
Post by: Necromancer on December 18, 2013, 01:39:04 AM
Nobody else loves Gainax?  :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Your favorite 8/16 bit developers
Post by: Nando on December 18, 2013, 02:28:04 AM
Nobody else loves Gainax?  :mrgreen:



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Title: Re: Your favorite 8/16 bit developers
Post by: _joshuaTurbo on December 18, 2013, 02:49:59 AM
Ultra - Way better than just regular Konami
Sunsoft - Sillius, Batman, RotJ,
FCI - Purely for the NES ports of Ultima Exodus and Quest of the Avatar along with the SNES port of False Prophet.
Rare -RC Pro-Am, Battletoads
Technos/American Technos - Super Dodge Ball, Kunio, River City Ransom, Double Dragon.

Nintendo, Hudson and Sega for obvious reasons
Title: Re: Your favorite 8/16 bit developers
Post by: geise on December 18, 2013, 06:29:49 AM
#1 for me was Konami.   Sad to see what they've become now.
Hudson Soft
Compile
Ancient
Treasure.  Another company that has gone down hill.
Taito
Telenet
TechnoSoft
Wolfteam
SEGA/Sonic Team/Sonic Software Planning
elf(エルフ)
DMA Design
Reflections
Psygnosis
Bitmap Brothers

EDIT:  Just realized my list is very close to TR0N's.  *Dorky internet high five*
Title: Re: Your favorite 8/16 bit developers
Post by: MrFlutterPie on December 19, 2013, 10:50:43 AM
Ocean
Acclaim
LJN

Title: Re: Your favorite 8/16 bit developers
Post by: Tatsujin on December 19, 2013, 11:11:05 AM
#1 for me was Konami.   Sad to see what they've become now.


very very very very very very very sad, but very very very very very very very true.
Title: Re: Your favorite 8/16 bit developers
Post by: Tatsujin on December 19, 2013, 11:12:04 AM
Ocean
Acclaim
LJN



:lol:

at least LJN had jawesome tim on board for some best musics ever :)
Title: Re: Your favorite 8/16 bit developers
Post by: MrFlutterPie on December 19, 2013, 11:42:46 AM
Is it wrong I want to play Ocean's EU exclusive Water World?.........ever since I was a kid?...




































I like the movie and used to rent the VB game a lot  8-[
Title: Re: Your favorite 8/16 bit developers
Post by: Tatsujin on December 19, 2013, 11:56:41 AM


I like liked the movie as a 4yo and my pops used to rent the VB game a lot for me 8-[

fixed
Title: Re: Your favorite 8/16 bit developers
Post by: geise on December 19, 2013, 12:02:56 PM
LOL.  Ocean?  You must've played a lot of Amiga or Atari ST back in the day to use that company in this thread.  I sure liked them.  I loved Ivanhoe.
Title: Re: Your favorite 8/16 bit developers
Post by: Tatsujin on December 19, 2013, 12:39:53 PM
LOL.  Ocean?  You must've played a lot of Amiga or Atari ST back in the day to use that company in this thread.  I sure liked them.  I loved Ivanhoe.

hahaha ivanhoe was my first own amiga game. i so loved it for its nice colors and big arcade bumped sprites, very despit the fact that it run in like 5fps and its gameplay was probably the worst ever to experience :lol:

also a just let the sword intro run for like hours non-stop, because I was so proud of my newly get amiga :lol:

"Deliver le king"
Title: Re: Your favorite 8/16 bit developers
Post by: MrFlutterPie on December 19, 2013, 12:40:27 PM
My dad was the one who rented me the VB and I was only 10 when the movie came out... :lol:

In all seriousness Water World was covered 100% in a issue of NP as a full walkthrough.  It's just that the movie failed so hard (don't worry I still love you) that they didn't bother bringing it to NA like originally planned. I had that issue and I thought it looked pretty cool and I always wanted to play it ever since I was a kid.

I also thought somebody would get a kick out me mentioning Ocean.  They made a lot games based on movies and many of their games were of dubious quality lol.
Title: Re: Your favorite 8/16 bit developers
Post by: Tatsujin on December 19, 2013, 12:41:48 PM
My dad was the one who rented me the VB and I was only 10 when the movie came out... :lol:

hahaha, so I wasn't that far off shore :lol:
Title: Re: Your favorite 8/16 bit developers
Post by: DragonmasterDan on December 20, 2013, 01:40:12 PM
My personal favorite developers from the 8 and 16-bit eras.
Nintendo
Konami
Capcom
SquareSoft
Hudson
Sega
Telenet
GameArts
Rare
Taito
Enix
SNK
Data East

I'm not covering companies who only published games like Working Designs, since it's about developers.