Intelligent Systems

[Johnny Nighttrain]

Nintendo of Japan development branch located in Kyoto, Japan near Nintendo's main Kyoto office. Intelligent Systems was formed in late 1986 by a few former members of Nintendo Research & Development 1, and was immediately annexed by Nintendo.

Throughout its 15 year history, Intelligent Systems has developed system tools, programmed a few titles inconjunction with R&D1, as well as developed some titles on their own for parent publisher Nintendo Co., Limited.

Intelligent Systems is currently concentrating on Game Boy Advance development tools and a variety of Game Boy Advance titles.

although im not sure if i'd put them in my top 3 Nintendo teams, they've done some really great stuff. here are some of their best games ever made...

1990
Famicom Wars


Fire Emblem


1991
Fire Emblem Gaiden


1993
Metal Combat: Falcon's Revenge


Fire Emblem 3: Mystery of the Crest


1996
Fire Emblem 4: Geneology of the Holy Way


Tetris Attack


1997
Super Famicom Wars


1999
Fire Emblem 5: Thracia 776


2000
Pokemon Puzzle Challenge


Paper Mario


2001
Mario Kart: Super Circuit


Advance Wars


2002
Fire Emblem: Sealed Sword


(Co-programmed under NCL R&D1 Design)
Battle Clash (1992)
Kaeru no Tameni Kane wa Naru (A Bell Sound for a Frog) (1992)
Super Metroid III (1993)
Card Hero (2000)

i get the feeling some stuff was left out. if that's the case, im sure Johnny Undaunted can help us out. anyways...um...appreciate.

oh, and i'd really like these guys to make another console game already.

[NeoZeedeater]

Great stuff. I love IntSys. I'm just annoyed that every time I buy Paper Mario, my N64 won't run it.

Battleclash and Metal Combat are the best 16-bit gun games.

[Johnny Nighttrain]

i'd like to get my hands on Metal Combat a lot. i enjoyed Battleclash a lot, and i hear that Metal Combat is better in every single way.

i think their best 16-Bit stuff is Tetris Attack. but keep in mind i haven't played any of their import stuff what so ever. but then again, if we want to give them credit at all for Super Metroid, then yeah, that's easily the best work they did.

[NeoZeedeater]

Metal Combat is just more of the same really. It feels a little too similar to Battleclash. I wouldn't say it's much better but it's well worth buying for Battleclash fans.

Galactic Pinball(VB) and Top Rank Tennis(GB)were also R&D1/IntSys games.

[Blaine]

Wow. I was unaware anyone else liked Battleclash.

Super Scope 6 was cool as hell.

[Andy]

I absolutely love Intelligent Systems. Paper Mario and Advance Wars are easily among my favorite Nintendo games, and Fire Emblem looks really fantastic, I'm so glad they're finally bringing it over.

[Mzo]

I like BattleClash and Metal Combat... just wish there were more Super Scope games (BC, MC, Tin Star, Yoshi's Safari (ugh), the 6-game pack in. Am I missing anything?)

Intelligent Systems ranks pretty high up there for me, what with Metroid 3, Advanced Wars, etc. They've shown that they're pretty talented with different game types, and I second that motion to please see them work on some console stuff.

[NeoZeedeater]

There's also Bazooka Blitzkreig, X-Zone and T2 for Super Scope games. Plus there's Konami's Lethal Enforcers but you might need the Justifier gun for it.

[sggg]

Intelligent Systems is my favourite Nintendo dev team by far. Advance Wars is the best Nintendo game I have ever played. I have long desired to play the Fire Emblem series (in English) so I am hoping history does not repeat itself and that I'll finally get a chance to do so later this year.

[Yoshi]

There are way too many happy, warm, fuzzy, love-in threads around here lately.

*Concocts an evil plan*