Atlus

[Videodrone]

props to Xs. alot of effort went into this i'm sure.

[Sqoon]

Wasn't Widget developed by Zodiac Entertainment, as suggested by the title screen?

Trap Gunner was developed by Racdym.

[sggg]

Great thread xS. Atlus is one of my favourite companies....... and I have not even played those seemingly great games which were left in Japan.

I've been playing Tactics Ogre for GBA lately. Great game. I made me an AngelKnight last night.

[xS]

Wasn't Widget developed by Zodiac Entertainment, as suggested by the title screen?

Oops, my bad. I typed this up about a month or two ago and just slapped the pics on it right now.

Another mistake up there: I'm not the biggest fighting fan so I did not notice until recently that the Power Instinct series is internally developed by Atlus. Princess Kurara from PD supposedly appears in it.


And isn't there a PS1 Purika Daisakusen?

And here's Jack Frost who is often used Atlus's mascot of sorts...... .

[xS]

Here's another cool Atlus title:Mesopotamia for the Turbo Duo.

[ferricide]

Also, it’s important to note that Megami Tensei is the originator of the use of Western religion in Japanese games, and without it… games like Xenogears and Silent Hill would have never existed.

... i think that's a bit of an overstatement. =)

Designed by the team behind the MegaTen series, Persona is a spinoff series which plays like a hybrid between typical SMT and Suikoden. These games were released domestically, but never managed to do all that well.

and it's a damn shame. i think that the two persona games we got are two of the best games on playstation.

Lunacy : Adventure game with a devil based theme for the Saturn. Someone has told me that this is MegaTen related, but I really don’t know.

as thray mentioned, this game was developed by sega -- the same team that did mansion of hidden souls for saturn. sega published it in japan and europe under its original title: torico.

Growlanser
Oh yes, but you’ll never know ‘cause Sony doesn’t seem to approve of this game for domestic release. It’s a damn shame as the transalation GL2 is pretty much complete.=\

it's my understanding that goemon is the game that really had the approval problems. i think GL is approved, cos WD is using GL graphics on their site.

you know, atlus USA didn't have any interest in releasing the GL titles on PS2, so you can't just blame sony for everything...

Tactics Ogre
Atlus supposedly co developed this one.

don't think atlus had anything to do with it. they didn't have any involvement in the japanese release, either (artdink published the ogre games on PS1 in japan. riverhill soft did on saturn, which were entirely different ports AFAIK.)

[Werewolf]

Atlus also had a RPG for the PSone called "Eithea" which looked pretty good, I've never played it but the style looks very similar to the Growlanser games






Very nice thread xS ... though that character with the high heel shoe embedded in her head freaks me out

[Johnny Nighttrain]

according to Johnny Undaunted, the people making all the Technos games over at Atlus are pretty much Technos.

Atlus is just publishing for them from what i understand.

anyways, great thread.

[xS]

don't think atlus had anything to do with it. they didn't have any involvement in the japanese release, either (artdink published the ogre games on PS1 in japan. riverhill soft did on saturn, which were entirely different ports AFAIK.)

IGN listed the SS game as a co developed game.=\ I've played most of the games above, but for the ones I've missed out on IGN,Gamespy and other sites here and there were my sources.

As for the Lunacy mistake...
http://www.411mania.com/games/column...columns_id=357
Lunacy (Atlus, Sega Saturn)
Okay, the Sega Saturn and Atlus are two things well known for terror games. Atlus has Persona, Devil Summoner, Hell Night and this puppy. To be honest, Lunacy isn’t scary at all, but it fits the genre with an incredible story over everything else and is the forgotten Shin Megami Tensei game. I’d say even 90% of Shin/Persona fans don’t realize this is a Persona game. In fact you won’t get to realize it until 75% done the game, when Philemon shows up in his non-human form, and parallels with all the Persona games start happening. In fact, Lunacy is almost like a beat version story wise of Innocent Sin.

[haohmaru]

Lunacy for Saturn is pretty difficult to find, as well. I never had the time to try it and it's on my pile of shame.

Growlanser(s) never ran into the Sony roadblock, that was Goemon. I don't think Sony has issues with Growlanser at all - and those are title that I really look forward to seeing in the U.S. (WD or not).